The Catechism says otherwise. So what?

In his Sound of Sheer Silence blog at http://soundofsheersilence.blogspot.com/2017/10/quick-hitter-why-pastoral-discretion-is.html  Michael Boyle writes

[I]t is up to the priest to decide whether or not these people [i.e., LGBTs, the divorced and remarried] are allowed to continue to operate in the church context, and on what terms.  The suggestion that the people themselves, that divorced and remarried people or LGBT people, are able to determine their own status and their own situation before God without the need for adjudication by clergy is beyond the pale.  "Theory" and "intellectual integrity" are really place holders for "the unfettered discretion of the priest." This unfettered discretion is really the best of all worlds for a priest--it allows him to be seen as merciful and kind when he wants to cut people a break, and when he wants to hammer people for whatever reason, he can deflect blame onto "the rules."