Frank, the Catholic Church and most other orthodox Christians regard homosexuality as a disorder of nature and a grave sin only when acted out. This church and, again, most orthodox Christians strictly require that homosexuals must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity.

While militant homosexuals are involved in a well organized movement to gain acceptance for homosexual behavior including marriage, I'm unaware of any such heterosexual movement for, say, fornication and adultery. It is true that the sexual revolution has lowered sexual standards generally. Orthodox Christians regard all sexual activity outside of marriage between a man and woman to be sinful.

As to the Catholic Church's position on any homosexual acts, what could be more clear than the following: Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,[140] tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered."[141] They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.

Churches should heartily welcome homosexual people who, acknowledge homosexual behavior as a sin and sincerely struggle against it.

The Catholic catechism balances this nicely with the following sections:

2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,[140] tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered."[141] They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.

2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. They do not choose their homosexual condition; for most of them it is a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.

2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.

The trouble is that many contemporary homosexuals are involved in a militant movement to recognize homosexuality as equivalent to heterosexuality including the crucial institution of marriage.

That's rather a thumb sucker of a comment. The Dems are a caricature of themselves. They indulged for years with Bush Derangement Syndrome and now faint at the slightest criticism of St. Obama.

Apart from rhetoric, Obama is so far following Bush's policies in the Global War against Radical Islam. Obama's populist move to do away with Gitmo is hardly any different than what McCain would have done. He has actually increased Predator strikes against al Quaeda in Pakistan that include civilian casualties; instead of using aggressive interrogation he's killing the terrorists without a trial. According to Max Boot, we're incarcerating three times as many unlawful combatants at our Bagram base in Afghanistan than Bush did. He, also, authorized the Seals to take out the Somali pirates.

The change in rhetoric is not trivial, though amusing. The "War on Terror" has become "Global Contingency Operations" and terrorist acts are termed "man caused disasters"; How silly and how revealing of Obama's insecurity.

Obama is doing OK on terrorism, though his domestic policies are an unmitigated disaster. Should he continue to press for utopian domestic goals, he won't be able to achieve his foreign policy ones. I still think that underneath it all he is a colossal empty suit with little experience and less accomplishment who has provided the Republicans with rich opportunity to come back in 2010 and 2012