In response to the letter by Bishop Steinbock (Bishop of Fresno, California) calling priests to support the Church's definition of marriage, Father Geoffrey Farrow, who had revealed he is a homosexual, decided to respond in a rather interesting manner. (By "interesting", I mean he opposed the Church's teaching.)

"How is marriage protected by intimidating gay and lesbian people into loveless and lonely lives?" he asked parishioners of the St. Paul Newman Center.

Did you get the subtle accusation?

Apparently - and maybe I am reading this wrong - by protecting marriage in the normal and traditional sense, one is intimidating homosexuals. Hmm... I thought people are intimidated when you actually intimidate them. But then again, I must have missed something. You see, by not actively supporting homosexual "marriages", you are apparently intimidating homosexuals. By that logic, I could argue that everyone who does not exclusively support normal marriages are intimidating heterosexuals.

In case you are not edified enough by Father Farrow, here's more:

"I know these words of truth will cost me dearly," he said. "But to withhold them... I would become an accomplice to a moral evil that strips gay and lesbian people not only of their civil rights but of their human dignity as well."

I am not sure which aspect of "human dignity" he is referring to here. I mean, where is the dignity in not recognizing and appreciating the fundamentally complementary differences between male and female? But again, I must have missed the point since it's not about "human dignity", it's about the "right" (as in license) to do as one pleases. Sorry, my mistake.

And I almost forgot, it's about not becoming an accomplice to "moral evil" because that's important too.