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It's not the lawfulness or unlawfulness of sodomy that's now in question --- that was, as you said, settled long ago. As the Catechism teaches,

"Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved."

> There may be some pastors, though --- I don't know --- who are looking for some discussion on pastoral strategy for reaching gays?

Say a mom wants her little boy enrolled in your church's Vacation Bible School. He's enrolled, he's participating and making friends, he's learning his prayers and his Bible Stories, everything's fine. A couple days in, the church realizes that another lady comes and picks him up and she's also his "mom." He's being raised by two women.

The Coordinator of VBS program engages the ladies in casual conversation. She doesn't start out with "Uh, so you're both little Michael's mothers? Is one of you the grandmother? Or...what are you, queer?" Rather, she statrts out with something like, "You're new here. Good to see Michael loves VBS. Are you coming to Parents' Evening next Friday?"

Are they both allowed to come to Parents' Evening next Friday?

Or what? What is your next step?