They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. With that definite teaching in mind, the only final and acceptable pastoral purpose must be to call all homosexuals to chastity, which must be for them as for all unmarried persons to sexual abstinence. Were Bishop Gumbleton to articulate for Dignity members that position his participation might be welcomed. But to date he has not shown willingness to enunciate unequivocally what is Catholic reality. Actually, they are mere imitations of acts intended by God as uniting men and women in marriage for God's purpose, first as uniting a man and a woman in marriage for God's own designs, the first of which purposes He Himself expressed to Adam, that children result.
Fecundity thus becomes the indispensable end of sexual intimacy.
Separate that purpose intentionally and purposefully from the act, and the act is reduced to the purely physical, and becomes perforce lustful in one degree or another. That must be as true of a simulation of the marital act, which the homosexual act can only be, as for a perversion of the act in marriage between a man and a woman. No personal intention or motive can change those realities. That has been the meaning of sex as revealed to the Church by God from the very beginning. There has been no deviation from that reality in the Church's teaching - ever.