It's good that Bishop Stowe addressed the New Ways Ministry gathering. But his address could have been stronger on three points:

1. We need to hear that the traditional objection to same-sex orientation and activity, based on "natural law," is in fact based on an inaccurate and unacceptable view of human nature. "Natural law" in this case is a falsehood.

2. We need to hear that to demand of a group of people who have no vocation to the single state that they must live all their lives with no amorous union or relationship looks unspeakably unjust.

3. We need to hear that those Catholics who treat the lives, minds and activities of LGBT people as matters of great moral gravity, and who condemn them for living honestly and in sincere cultivation of love, themselves have a warped faculty of moral judgment, and are themselves to be condemned for letting their personal hostile prejudice impede the workings of justice and charity in their own hearts.