If they are “tolerant” of homosexuality, they do not have a proper understanding of matrimony, and their mockups of “marriage” would be as scandalous as the relations of many Church of England clergy.
Dishonest celibacy among Catholic priests is just as wrong as dishonest matrimony between protestant clerics. In the Catholic church, it has had disastrous results with young boys. Mandatory celibacy may be the root cause of two billion dollars to victims of priest-perpetrated sexual abuse.
What needs to be addressed is the practice of mandatory celibacy. Christ said it was never intended to be mandatory but was for a few chosen by God. This thinking needs to balanced with the idea that a few men are also chosen for the priesthood and marriage. This practice may have had its origins in the 12th century, where before, some popes handed the pope-hood to their sons.
The Catholic Church has had bizarre notions about sexuality from its early history. For instance, in the year 400, Council of Carthage decreed that bishops, priests and deacons abstain from conjugal relations: “It is fitting that the holy bishops and priests of God as well as the Levites, i.e. those who are in the service of the divine sacraments, observe perfect continence, so that they may obtain in all simplicity what they are asking from God; what the Apostles taught and what antiquity itself observed, let us also endeavor to keep... It pleases us all that bishop, priest and deacon, guardians of purity, abstain from conjugal intercourse with their wives, so that those who serve at the altar may keep a perfect chastity.”
We also know about the practice of castrating young boys so their voices would continue to sing in high notes when in 1599, Pope Clement VIII gave the ok for the production of castrati for such purposes. Why did they do this? Because of the Catholic Church’s distorted view of women and sexuality. This practice was done for about 280 years because women, who did have the vocal range, were forbidden to sing in the Catholic Churches.
What is important here is that the Catholic Church has held traditions that has lived in the fantasy world of utopian ideals. However, because of a learning process, the Catholic Church has learned that the earth is round and not the center of the universe. For the most part, it has grown to be an important force for the good of mankind. It is because of the church’s history of faults that its critics use to attack it. I just want the church to continue its positive role in human history by doing better.
I give the best Catholic teaching on marriage. It is called CASTI CONNUBII, ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI ON CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE DECEMBER 31, 1930. If the Catholic Church would uphold the teachings of this encyclical, it would continue in its best traditions of upholding what is important for human destiny:
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius11/P11CASTI.HTM