It can and should be empowered and publically articulated by intellectual heroes like the great man who just stood up in NYC and told the truth to a corrupted world. You don't see too much courage like that these days.
This should be rewarded with the spreading of a movement to deal nationally with the decayed root of this spiritual cavity in churches, and the problem is not just in the Catholic Church. Those disaffected can go off and form their own decrepit, permissive Gay Catholic Church where they can get in touch with their secular humanist inner selves till the cows come home without polluting the great congregation of those who have just about had enough of this darkness and scandal.