The tricky part is that a lot of people use the word "gay" to mean just "same-sex attracted" rather than "active sodomite." In addition to that, some people so identify with their feelings, that they embrace "gay" as their identity.
It's always a bad idea to find your "identity" in your appetites.
This slipperiness in the use of the word "gay" to mean , inexactly, what a person does, how he feels, and who he "is", makes it more difficult to explain that we do not want to devalue, marginalize and reject persons per se, but we do reject gay conduct and even the gay "relationships" and "culture" predicated upon that conduct.
Perhaps, but Pope Francis needs to brush up on where your church stands instead of misleading the homosexual community to think and believe they will eventually have a free pass. Which IMO this Pope will find a way to do just that.
And BTW it isn't just the catholic church where this thinking has infiltrated...as we see Protestant Churches are actually accepting and encouraging this behavior in many which have been taken over by this homosexual agenda.