Sheesh. My post in this thread shows me just how radically I have changed in a couple of months. I was one of those "good-hearted liberals" -- how naive.
Let me correct myself and say that if someone has ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ inclinations then the person is gravely mentally disordered, and must overcome those inclinations through the help of God. Someone like Boniface, who makes ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ jokes and has pretty much done everything short of admitting outright that he has these unnatural tendencies, needs to stop making light of the problem, as this is no joking matter.
I used to believe people were born gαy, which I repent of. To say that is only to encourage them and make them think they can't help themselves. When people say they are "born" gαy what they really mean is that at a certain point in their childhood they first noticed ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ inclinations. They then get attached to these inclinations thinking that it's an inextricable part of their development. Lazily, they let their mind revolve around these thoughts, not even bothering to resist them, thinking that they can't help it. Eventually they're plagued with all kinds of perverted mental fantasies, such as that they should have been born as girls or whatever.
Can someone who ever has ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ inclinations defeat them and be a true Catholic, without bringing the religion down to some abased level, as the VII priests and probably many trad priests are doing? I would like to think that theoretically they can completely obliterate all traces of unnatural desire from their minds. How often this happens in practice -- your guess is as good as mine.
All I know is that no one who has, or has admitted to having had these inclinations should be admitted to a seminary ever again.
After what has happened in the Church, or "Church," anyone who has even the slightest tendency in that direction should be kept out of cassocks from now on, for their own sakes as well as the sake of others.