"I just believe that the church’s fixation on defining us by a sexual act—a nonprocreating sexual act—to be [an] absurdly myopic, viewed the wrong way down the telescope.  And I think it’s sustained, unfortunately, by a lot of emotionally crippled gay men who run the church. And they’ve done a great job in the last ten years of making sure that no one with an independent mind or spirit can really enter the seminaries."

" . . I’m not a Catholic because of issues like gayness. I’m a Catholic because of what I believe to be its revelation of the truth about everything.  And either it’s true or it isn’t.  And it’s possible for it to be true on some core levels, and yet mistaken, and misplaced, and misguided in other areas. And if you look at the history of the Church, it’s full of it. So I try and hang in there, and let God do the rest."

Andrew Sullivan