As a gay person and lifelong Catholic, I have long been bewildered as to why some people consider the mere tolerance of gay people (and think about what that means: "tolerating" someone) is enough to send them over the edge and off to another, less tolerant church, as has happened among other Christian denominations. 

When one considers that the origins of homophobia in the Judeo-Christian tradition stem from Leviticus, a book largely devoted to Jewish ritual law which most Christians and many Jews mostly ignore, it is curious indeed as to why the one particular issue of homosexuality is enough to have some people raving that it alone is "the sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance!" as though they were discussing murder. 

As an old gay person I no longer care what the Church decides to do about people like me, but I do care about the young people who will be forced against their will to listen to homophobic sermons as I recently endured this past Sunday when the theme was love.