I think we could have a long circular argument about whether a celibate man can be a homosexual, but I agree with the thrust of your point. My point was not that the sin of homosexuality makes this man odious, but rather his claim that God actively creates sin and deviancy. He commits the sin of calling evil good, and compounds it both by blaspheming and by proclaiming it from a priestly pulpit. From a scriptural perspective this makes him a false teacher to be shunned, unless he repents. Both Paul and Jude speak authoritatively on this point.
If he were a homosexual outside of the church, or even one within the church who was not in a position of authority I would gladly eat dinner with him. Christ did no less for sinners.
Christ went among sinners to preach the kingdom of God to them, they were not considered men for appointment as representatives of God.
Priests do not become priests overnight. It takes years to be appointed to that position. If a man still considers himself homosexual it intimates that act is not far from his mind, whether or not it is due to recent acts or contemplation of acts is not clear and does not matter. He is still in a fleshly frame of mind and not a man to be put in charge of a flock.
The fact that this priest clearly does not consider homosexuality a sin is strange. It goes against what Corinthians 6:9 states; "People who do evil will never inherit the Kingdom of God" and goes on to list sodomites among the evils. It ends with saying that is what some of you were but you have been washed clean in the name of the Spirit of God. How can they be washed clean if they consider it not evil?
"The gift of a gay child..." "What a loss if we drive these gifted people from our midst"
Obviously does not coincide with the teachings of the early apostles who were taught by Christ.
If he claimed that God "creates" sin, that's heresy.
However, I believe that he claimed God made HIM. That's NOT a heresy. Using the Thomistic term, an "accidental" quality of the Bishop is that he is a queer.