text: For dummies like me:
  1)  In the eyes of the church (canon law) there are no “married” gays, lesbian, mice, moose or anything else. Canon law states that matrimony occurs between a man and a woman human. Bishop Paprocki’s statement about married lesbians or gays is irrelevant as his only concern is limited to the guidelines of canon law. 
  
  2)  The Catechism of the Church, Chapter 4; Other Liturgical Celebrations Article 2 Christian funerals states nothing about the life of the deceased only that being Baptized gives you the right to have a Catholic funeral. Paprocki’s statement is ludicrous on the face of it as we do not deny funerals for murderers, rapists, or any others rightly or wrongly recognized by society as “evil.” In fact, the Church teaches us that all should be recognized as having “repented” if necessary, before they died.
  How someone as poorly educated in the working of the Church was even ordained a priest let along become ordained a Bishop is beyond comprehension.