I wonder what you (or any of us) might have to offer as good pastoral strategies toward caring for gay people who turn up in the parish, for instance in the RCIA program? Or as parents of children who are enrolled in the parochial school?
The answer you/we seek is within the Holy Bible. Our flesh always want to look to every other place, but the Bible has the answers. We are to Believe, Preach, and Spread the Good News/Gospel of Jesus Christ! Our job isn’t to assure(convert them) their Salvation, but to show them the way. The Holy Spirit then takes over and does all the convicting.
I know as human flesh we want to put our hands in there and add some special human touch, but it hasn’t worked nor will it. If the Church (all of us) was doing our job and Evangelizing in every environment they couldn’t escape the words of Christ thus the Holy Spirit’s conviction.
Instead we have chose to be fat and lazy and God stays in building much like a wild critter and is always caged and then we wonder why he isn’t heard. We are his mouth, eyes, feet, and hands to the world.
Now get off your butt and do something a little or a lot, but something! All to his GLORY!!!
The answer is always the same, isn’t it? To be salt and light, as per Matthew 5.
The same way I deal with other behaviors the Lord hates, namely, hands that shed innocent blood (women who have killed their own children via abortion), a lying tongue (politicians and the unsaved), sowing discord (the gossiping neighbor), etc..
Anyone who is born again of the Spirit of God, a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ as Redeemer, has the Holy Ghost dwelling inside them. And that is what causes us to hate these things as well.
To be salt and light, and to speak boldly (Paul, Eph 6:20), as we ought to speak.
There is a difference between an individual homosexual, and the homosexual agenda, I’m sure you know. The indoctrination in schools, the subtle messages to children in cartoons and internet games, and popular culture all work to corrupt our youth. It’s the agenda that needs to be handled with a firm and uncompromising hand.
And don’t forget that the real purpose of homosexual marriage is to clear the way for massive and unrestricted pedopheliia. So to condone ‘marriage equality’, or to appear to condone it, is in a very real sense putting our goo, normal children at great risk.