On the attacks on the Catholic Church

[Bluenorthwest]

48. The Church says my family is the work of Satan. I am going to criticize the fuck out of such

hate speech. That's the new Pope.
What shocks me is that folks say 'it is only the hierarchy that is bigoted' but then they also demand, as you do OP, no criticism of the Church itself.
Why, I ask you, are there not similar reactions toward the Church or the Pope when attacks are launched on LGBT people? When some Pope or Cardinal says those things, where are the folks who are so upset today? Why don't they speak out against that hate speech? If speeches calling gay people satanic are not bigoted attacks, I don't know what is. Why are there not OP's critical of those hugely bigoted and globally publicized attacks pronounced in the name of God and of believers?

The concern only for the wounded believers, when the believers are not concerned for the wounds issued in their name to others, seems very lopsided and frankly not very Christian.
Jesus H Christ said to be slow to take offense, very swift to forgive, when attacked offer yourself for another attack. He said those who follow him WILL be mocked and persecuted and he instructed them to rejoice and be glad when that happens, he did not say 'carefully demand respect and clarify that you are not like those other followers of me'. He said rejoice. He gave no warrant to get in a snit for his name's sake, nor to weep over being made fun of, he said be exceedingly glad.

How can a Christian place their own offense at criticism of very bad things in their Church over the harm done to others in their name? Why do they not instantly seek to make amends, to reach out, to assure others that while their pal in the robes curses us, they do not?
Would it break their backs to say 'sorry' to those of us their organization uses as rhetorical fodder and attacks non stop in the most insulting and vicious terms, delivered from the cover of pulpit and parish? Clearly they are able to stand up when they feel insulted. Have they no empathy for those insulted by their own Francis, or Benedict?
They fact that that Church says I should have no rights and takes political action to see that such injustices continue means that Church is deserving harsh political attack, and deserves no shred of false respect.