Challenge:   try to recall a single MSW column that had anything to do with family, marriage, or children.  You know, the stuff that's at the center of Catholic moral teaching.

Family, marriage, children....these are of a world that MSW can't comprehend.    And that is why he never writes about them.  He can't relate to these things, he has no feeling for these things.   His feelings are obviously outside these core elements of Catholicism.

This all  points to one reason for why I keep saying that closeted gay men have no businesses being professional Catholic pundits.    They simply have a different vision of the world, and this clearly colors their commentary on Catholicism, politics, and much else.

It's all well and good that gay men write for Catholic publications -- but they shouldn't pretend to be straight.