text: I think the answer is that once a Catholic person adopts the label "gay," and similar labels,  his/her membership becomes one of rebellion against the Church. with membership providing standing to demand that the Church change its teaching.
  
  Those who have adopted the homosexual label refuse to consider the Church's pastoral care offered in organizations such as Courage; but many who have not taken on the label have managed to overcome their same-sex attraction and either live in chastity or embrace the life that God wants for all of us: to be united with an individual who with us forms the whole of the human species.