Apparently there is considerable interest among NCR readers in the LBGT issue, but I don't know many people who think it is an important issue for the Church. Poverty, war, attacks on Christians in so many places in the world, secularization of Western society and the decline in Church participation are more than enough in importance to occupy the attention of concerned Catholics and of our Holy Father. The scandal which is given to the church by sexually active priests (gay or straight) is devastating, particularly when directed toward children, and clearly neither gay nor straight clergy have a monopoly in this field, but it is just undeniable that throughout the world (and the Church is everywhere) that the gay lifestyle is abhorrent to many. It is reasonable, since no one has a right to be a Catholic priest, to limit opportunities for scandal even where the means are not perfect.