It is geared toward the younger generation who make up a large percentage of Internet users. I find that their answers to readers questions are quite profound. The document in question has occasioned at least a dozen letters to us. In most cases, nonetheless, one could not take exception to the conservative, pastorally sensitive positions put forth in the document. The two sections that you quite rightly summarize, however, present serious problems.
Birth control is a pastoral issue.
Nor does the Church, as reflected in the words of a number of Fathers, including St. John Chrysostomos, teach that marital relations are licit only when they aim at the conception of a child. Such a formula could lead to abuse and open immorality, and it certainly fails to address the question of prophylactic measures against conception with the pastoral subtlety and careful regard for chastity and self-control that the Orthodox Church traditionally advocates in this regard. As for homosexuality, anyone actively engaged in such activity, whether he seeks to justify it or not, should not normally commune. Sinners are not exempt from excommunication simply because they admit that they have sinned or do not seek to justify their sins, whether they are guilty of lying, heresy, homosexuality, or adultery. The attempt to justify sin is a consequence of sin, but is in no way directly related to a sinful act itself.