Its basis is a false dichotomy between truth and love. In this context a fundamentalist is defined as someone who upholds doctrine at the expense of compassion. However, it is a very different matter when doctrine is based on divine revelation as authentically interpreted by the authority Christ established and the Holy Spirit safeguards. In this case the issue is truth not opinion. Thus, when the Church condemns homosexual acts it is not failing in its obligation to love the neighbor.
Truth is never in conflict with charity.
It is its foundation. The same can be said for the Church's teaching regarding a number of other controversial doctrinal positions that some regard as rigid - divorce and remarriage, artificial contraception, masturbation, abortion, and the ordination of women. In his 1998 ad Limina Addresses 1 to the U.S. bishops Pope John Paul II strongly rejected the application of such terms to the Church. He did so for several reasons. It is simply the truth.