For certain a homosexual orientation is a defect from God's plan and that following the feelings to commit homosexual acts is sinful.

However, the bishop is a bishop, and not a doctor or a neural scientist, and he isn't in an authoritative position to speak about whether homosexual tendencies can be cured through therapy.

I think he and others in the church are putting themselves in a dangerous position if they go beyond what is written in the catechism about the sinfulness of the acts, and … [More]