Separation of Church and State is the bedrock of democracy. Priests, and this article of Fr. Reese, do not represent the community of Catholics- look at the comments of your readers. There is group, big in numbers that opposes the century old teaching of the Church regarding homosexuals and oppose in even sronger terms the discriminatory actions of our church agains the indviduald because of their orientation. How the LGTB community fights for indvidual rights is a separate issue on how each Catholic treats the people they come accross. The conservatives, I fear say, have not acted with the compassion our religions demands of us. The church should get out of politics and work in a small way - with humility, serving all humans.