text: ". . . if LGBT people were permitted the kind of massive witnessing that has occurred in the Anglican communion, without fear of penalty or exclusion."
  
  It is CONTRARY to Church teaching to penalize or exclude a Catholic merely for being homosexual.  
  
  "To commence the dialogue, the Church would have to stop firing and threatening people because such actions underscore that dialogue is off the table."  
  But the Church has no business in dialogue whose object is to make acceptable what thousands of years of Christianity --- as well as thousands of cultures --- have said is not acceptable.