text: Elagabalus, I would like to apologize to you and to all other gay posters here for the atrocious way you are singled out for disrespect by this wretched action and many others by our bishops. 
  
  Please never doubt for one second that Jesus weeps with you whenever you are subject to discrimination by any of his creatures, and that Jesus tears blind him in anguish when the discrimination is perpetrated by one of his bishops. 
  
  Words are unable to express the disgust I feel for those here who choose to insult you directly in reply. Empathy is called for; it is very difficult not to assume insults come from hardened hearts.
  
  You speak wisely: 
  
  "The real scandal is the church's treatment of gay people, and everyone knows it. It is the church's everlasting shame, which is one of the reasons why young people are abandoning the church in droves. They know real scandal when they see it, and it's not married gay people going to communion."
  
  Amen. Amen. Amen.