From another article...

...in today's Times:

...Pope Benedict XVI, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in 1986 wrote the document presenting the Vatican’s most recent stance (my emphasis) condemning homosexuality, which determined that it was “not a sin” but “a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil,” and thus “an objective disorder.”

How could anyone--in this day and age--with a gay friend, relative, or co-worker be a member of a church that treats homosexuality like that?