Interracial marriage also made some devout Catholics sick...and off limits in certain polite circles...and not for discussion with children. Not long ago. 

We grew up. We listened to experts. We valued the experience of others.  And we admitted that a segregated Catholic Church could not be a holy Catholic Church. Mea Culpas.

I am "shocked and sickened" by things Cardinal Burke says. But I have NO right to silence him, to mock his Catholicity, to isolate him from the family,  to call him a sinner, to demean him, to degrade him, to doubt his entry into heaven, or to tell him he can't come to Sunday dinner because he might influence my grand kids. 

Maybe we can agree (for once?): In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, humility. In all things, charity.

Do we really want to put the private love lives of other Catholics in the "essentials" category along with the Real Presence, the forgiveness of sins, and the resurrection of the body?

If we do, we commit the sin of Trivialization.