Hope springs eternal, however besides his openly sinful life, his public sacrilege and blasphemy, he is in error about basic truths of the faith:
"It occurred to me that the main point of the story might not be that Abraham was willing to cut his child’s throat, but that God stopped him from doing it. The story illustrates a God that does not require sacrifice — especially of one’s fullest humanity — in order to prove allegiance. I can let myself live whole, and that includes my sexuality."
It appears that, perhaps out of false charity, that no priest has bothered to correct him. Now he not only endangers his own soul, but is free to spread his errors to others in his parish through the apparent approval of his pastor, and to many readers of this article, endangering countless other souls.
And again, I would like to emphasize that his instructor of the faith, his priest and or bishop, those who ignore the duty they have to correct him, are guilty of far greater evil.
If I'm a priest and this man presents himself to me, then I'm faced with a challenge. Here is a man who feels drawn to the Church yet at the same time, is living a lifestyle so at odds with its teaching. However, more importantly he rejects essential elements of Church doctrine.
I can not an must not send him away, but at the same time he may not be admitted as a member who receives Holy Communion. He needs good spiritual direction to accompany him on his journey and with God's grace this could end with his admission to the Church. Not necessarily when he stops sodomizing other men, but when he recognizes and accepts the sinfulness of that act.
As a spiritual dirrector, it would be my challenge to bring him to this realization.
As it is, he's been sold a bill of goods. He's been told "come on in, everything's fine", when he should have been kept outside, placed in intensive care and monitored constantly and vigilantly.
"It occurred to me that the main point of the story might not be that Abraham was willing to cut his child’s throat, but that God stopped him from doing it. The story illustrates a God that does not require sacrifice — especially of one’s fullest humanity — in order to prove allegiance. I can let myself live whole, and that includes my sexuality."
Mental disorder leads to disordered thinking. This is a good example of the reason that people who suffer from SSAD cannot be trusted with responsibilities.