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3 ways the Catholic church should embrace gay rights
By John D. Sutter, CNN
Wed October 15, 2014

(CNN) -- The Catholic church can't have it both ways on gay rights.

Either it must take steps to accept gay and lesbian people as part of its flock -- including them as full members, embracing their unions, decrying Catholic schools that fire gay and lesbian teachers and calling for the full protection of LGBT people around the world.

Or it can go back to emphasizing its condemnation of homosexual acts as "intrinsically disordered," as it does in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

The current middle ground -- with church leaders saying "homosexuals have gifts and qualities to offer the Christian community," but not fully embracing them as equal humans in the church and under the law -- is unsustainable and dangerous....

MORE at http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/14/opinion/sutter-pope-gay-rights/