Why apologize? It's true!

Elagabalus really should have included the prior paragraph to preserve morecontext:

"10. It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the Church's pastors wherever it occurs. It reveals a kind of disregard for others which endangers the most fundamental principles of a healthy society. The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in word, in action and in law.

"But the proper reaction..."

I have to think that Pope Francis would agree completely with this as well as the rest of the second paragraph.