Eating disorders, objective disorder, and gay in the Church

If you believe "homosexual desires" are "disordered desires," then you're not helping gay friends by belaboring the point. You're probably trying to avoid one disorder by creating another.

In this analogy, a desire for same-sex intimacy (which might include, but is not limited to, libido) is analogous to a desire for food (which might include, but is not limited to, hunger).

A few days ago nine Catholic bishops and a Cardinal, in partnership with the Tyler Clementi Foundation, released a statement in support of LGBT youth. It said, “The Ca…