text: By allowing an active homosexual man or woman to have an active role in the Church, it would appear that the Church is giving approval (tacit or otherwise) for the ACTIONS of the homosexual. 
  
  One of the sacred duties of bishops as primary teachers of the Faith to the Catholics in his diocese is to teach what the Church believes and teaches. To do otherwise is to shirk his duty, of which he will have to account to God for those in his flock he had led astray.
  
  This teaching doesn't apply only to homosexuals, but any person unrepentant of serious sin. Angelo Bruno, mob boss in Philly, was denied a Christian burial by John Cardinal Krol for his ongoing activity in criminal enterprises.