Your article underscores the glaring hypocrisy that exists in the Catholic Church regarding its selective punishment of gay people for causing SCANDAL (the scariest word in the Catholic lexicon) by, for example, taking time off from work to come sing in the choir for the funeral of a friend. If some clerics consider that SCANDALOUS, then they should be equally SCANDALIZED over the horrors of married couples who do not present one child for every year married in the communion line at church on Sundays. Since straight people who use contraception on a regular basis can pass without anyone bothering to ask them about their reproductive habits prior to the reception of holy communion, they get a pass. And nobody seems to think it's a SCANDAL. I say the way these clerics treat other human beings is the real SCANDAL and I, for one, am SCANDALIZED!!!!!!