Who ever said that God had a "plan"? The Jesus Seminar thought Jesus had a "program," which I suppose  they thought corresponded to God's plan. Still, if God had a plan, we have to conclude he was a poor planner, or at least weak in its execution. Isn't that 'plan" idea  just an widely interpretive translation of "oikonomia" in Ephesians?

Wasn't Cardinal Newman himself a gay man?

The present church teaching flows from metaphysical definitions of gender and being human. But aren't ecclesial  metaphysics just the current fundamentalism of church intellectuals?