I met Bishop Cozzens personally when he had to wait a day in Amsterdam for a flight to America. He was staying with me at the time. He had just given a retreat to the Missionaries of Charity (Sisters of Mother Teresa) with whom he maintains a good relationship. Bishop Cozzens is - in my opinion - a pious man trying to be a sincere follower of Christ. When he stayed with me - I think in 2016, just after the publication of Amoris Leatitia - I spoke with him about this encyclical. He shifted color when I told him I felt betrayed by Pope Francis, and he did not respond. The problem with him, and many bishops who are like him, is that deep in their hearts they see the truth, but they dare not acknowledge it because the consequences are too terrible. They are blinded by a certain form of papolatry that forbids them from ever thinking of the pope as erring or spreading heresy. Even though this is so obvious. Then they prefer to do - as in Bishop Cozzens' commentary - all kinds of brain gymnastics to defend the indefensible, to talk the lie straight. In fact, these are the greatest victims of Francis' deceptions. Their piety makes them, for the sake of their "obedience" to the pope, deny the truth to themselves.

As far as I remember people in "same-sex couples" i.e. public sodomites used to be excommunicated by the Church, cf. Councils of Elvira (305/306), Ancyra (314), Third Lateran Ecumenical Council (1179) - canon XI:

Quicumque autem in incontinentia illa, quae contra naturam est, propter quam ira Dei venit in filios diffidentiae et quinque civitates igne consumpsit, deprehensi fuerint laborare, si clerici fuerint, eiciantur a clero et ad agendam poenitentiam in monasteriis retrudantur; si laici, excommunicationi subdantur et a coetu fidelium fiant penitus alieni.

But whoever is in that incontinence, which is contrary to nature, because of which the wrath of God came upon the sons of unbelief and consumed five cities with fire, they must be caught working, if they were clerics, they should be expelled from the clergy and sent back to do penance in monasteries. if they are laymen, they are subject to excommunication and become completely alienated from the group of the faithful.

Why His Excellency is not able to say: Yes, yes - no, no but engages in a not-subtle-at-all but rather grotesque trap of blessings that are not blessings and acceptance of couples contra naturam that gives no acceptance.