text: Same-sex marriage doesn't "confound" orthodox Catholics whom you refer to disparagingly as trads, quite simply because it is an impossibility, it doesn't exist. Marriage can only be between a man and a woman so those who think otherwise are deluding themselves and deserving of our pity and God's mercy.
  It is the same with the priesthood, those who think women can be validly ordained are similarly deluding themselves and in like manner, deserving of our pity and God's mercy.
  All this will become clear on the Last Day.