text: I think there is something very important missing from the bishop's statement.  Perhaps he alluded to it, but he should have focused a bit more attention to it, because receiving the sacraments and a Catholic funeral aren't about gay relationships or straight relationships.
  A straight couple who marries outside the Church excommunicates itself.  For example, a couple in which at least one of the spouses was previously married and no annulment granted.  Effectively, this couple commits the mortal sin of adultery AND publicly defects from the Faith, and they continue to sin mortally by living as a married couple.  In a state of mortal sin, to receive the sacraments is an additional act of sacrilege each and every time.  Unless they repent, no Catholic burial may be granted to them either.
  In the case of a gay couple, no actual marriage is now or will ever be possible.  The same self-imposed restrictions apply.  The bishop is only reiterating Catholic teaching on the subject.