No double standard!
"Rev Parry is a priest of the increasingly liberal Episcopal Church in the USA."
The Episocopal Church, a Catholic Church, ACCEPTS homosexuals as equals so it's not a big deal.
The Episcopal Church is not a version or subset of the Catholic Church.
Given that the Episcopal/Anglican Church doesn't recognize the primacy of the Pope,it's not part of the "Roman Catholic Church"....although I guess it could be a catholic church.
The Episcopal Church, as you well know, is NOT the Catholic Church. The Episcopal Church, in the US and in England has lost it's collective mind, and become the Church of What's Happening Now.
The Catholic Church has continued to preach what she has always preached, and she teaches that, as God's creation, homosexual persons are heirs to God's grace, but that homosexual activity is sinful. As with all sinners, they have to repent and turn away from their sin in order to be fully in His Grace. The Church tries to help sinners of all stripes to turn from sin, but they can't force anyone to do so, because God has blessed us with Free Will.
In the past 20 years, the Seminaries in this country went off the deep liberal, feminist end, and seemingly rejected much of what the Church stands for. They weren't stopped by Pope Paul VI, and Pope John Paul I didn't get a chance to do anything. Pope John Paul II DID make some changes, and retired some of the older liberal bishops. These men had allowed the formation of priests to become lax, by allowing teachers in the Seminaries to tell the men who were preparing for the priesthood that the Church would probably change her stand against married priests. They didn't teach them to live in a chaste manner, so some priests had not learned to deal with their sexuality, and were ordained along with men who had homosexual leanings, or were openly homosexual, thus creating the problem the American priests had with abusing young people, mostly boys.
But the situation had begun to turn around, even before the first abuse stories hit the media, because the new Bishops appointed by Pope John Paul II had begun instituting changes in the Seminaries, and the new Bishops were beginning to defrock some of the abusive priests. Also, practicing Catholics were tired of the changes they had seen in their Parishes wrought by liberals bent on changing the Church to suit their personal and political whims. They fought back, and are seeing their Church restored to them, with the help of Pope Benedict.