That this question is even on the table for discussion shows that they are long past the rotting corpse stage.
That's the thing. Every generation thinks it is the first generation to discover sex. We act like this question never came up in the past 2000 years, anytime, anywhere. Obviously, it must have given the breadth of human experience over hundreds of lifetimes. If our ancestors consistently said NO, what makes us think we are so much wiser?
The PC (Politically Correct) (USA) Church is losing members, so it has to reach out to the vast homosexual population.
In 1999, the PC(USA) reported 2,560,201 members, so the current membership reflects a net loss of 483,063 members, or about 18.9 percent, over the last 10 years.