Substitute "black" for "gay." How does that sound? 

From all my experience with gay friends and a family member, I am convinced that people are born with a particular sexual orientation, thus created by God to be the way they are.  (Facing all the historical hatred and discrimination, who would choose to be gay??)

The Catholic Church doesn't need to compromise. It needs to pay attention to almost fifty years of scientific studies on homosexuality. 

Currently, the Church's position on the subject is as ridiculous as its treatment of Galileo.  

Using a verse in a 3,000-year-old document to understand and legislate on human sexuality  is in the same category as all those Catholics --including clergy-- who supported and justified slavery and Jim Crow because of Paul's epistle to Philemon.