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"I'm really not sure how anyone can read his [Chaput's]words and not see that this is about not offending the homosexuals."

That interpretation srikes me as so bizarre I hardly know how to comment. Are we to forget that there are SEVEN deadly sins (Pride, Anger, Lust (not just Homosexual), Envy, Gluttony, Avarice, and Sloth?

Are we to forget that, according to the Bible and to traditional Catholic teaching ---there are FOUR specially-highlighted "Sins That Cry Out to Heaven for Vengeance," murder (Gn 4:10), sodomy (Gn 17:20-21), oppression of the poor (Ex 2:23), and defrauding workers of their just wages (Jas 5:4)?

Are we to forget that prophets like Amos grouped economic, sexual, and idolatrous sins all in one batch? Practically all in one breath:

“For the three crimes, the four crimes of Israel, I have made my decree and will not relent: because they have sold the upright for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals, because they have crushed the heads of the weak into the dust and thrust the rights of the oppressed to one side, father and son sleeping with the same girl and thus profaning my holy name, lying down beside every altar on clothes acquired as pledges” (2:6-8).

St. Paul almost invariably includes sexual sins like sodomy in long lists of other defiling sins. I can think of four such lists:

1 Cor 6:9-10;
Gal 5:19-21
1 Tim 1:9-10
Eph 5:3-6

And heres two others, one from John and one from Jesus' own lips:

Rev. 22:12-16
Matt 25:41-46

Here's a good example from Paul:

(1 Cor 6:9-10)
Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither
the sexually immoral nor
idolaters nor
adulterers nor
homosexual offenders, nor
thieves nor
the greedy nor
drunkards nor
slanderers nor
swindlers
will inherit the kingdom of God.

And that is what some of you were.

It's clear God finds homosexual practices revolting. I can't imagine he has a more indulgent judgment for people who masturbate in front of a computer screen, or people who give free rein to anger and pride, who practice habitual calumny, who drive the lost lambs further into the thickets, who ruin their bodies by overeating and sitting in front of a computer screen for hours on end, or who contracept.

Moralists do make distinctions, even among mortal sins, between really bad and really, really bad. But any one of these sins--- unless, turning to God for mercy, you reject them from the heart --- will kill you dead.

That though should keep us from getting too pharasiacal:

"I thank you, God, that I am not like the rest of men. Esecially not like that homosexual."