text: And what about straight couples who marry outside of the church? Are they too to be denied the sacraments of the Holy Eucharist and a Christian burial? Or is it only gay people who "give scandal?" I see straight couples all the time who got married at City Hall for a second (or third) time, did not receive an annulment, and apparently no one is "scandalized" by their reception of Holy Communion, and everyone knows it's happening. Ditto for the funerals of such people. I have never heard of a straight couple who married outside the church being refused a burial. Never. Not even once. 
  
  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.