How can heart speak to heart, Christ and those he invites into relationship with him, if people cannot come to the church as they are? So many priests in the closet represent a forced handicap, not to mention institutional bigotry, which stunts their ministry. Of the priests I know, at least half, gay and straight, "have something on the side". So, thinking that homosexual behavior is sinful, and that even celibacy cannot be regarded as any sort of remedy tells the world: not only is the human person not inherently good, but that we're just going to wink and nod as we act like it is. The church will not draw people to Christ if it cannot value the people that populate it, not to mention the fact that this pathology leads to a perverse secrecy. In fact, by basing its views of homosexuality and celibacy on an misguided anthropology it prevents a meeting of Christ and people on two fronts. And Fr. Reese contends we're not yet ready for a remedy.