Let’s just pick out the most obvious, marriage, so I can indicate how things are already flawed.

Are you married? Do you recall filling out a marriage application? (if not, just read on) In Canada, prior to the ‘gay marriage’ battle, there was never anything stopping a gay person from getting married. The marriage application had a spot for a man and a woman. There was no box where you check off your sexual preference. A gay man could marry a gay woman, and the government wouldn’t have said a word. Alternately a straight man would be denied the ability to marry another straight man. So in the end marriage was very much fair and equal to everyone, since anyone could partake if they married someone of the opposite gender. How is that not equal? Surely you won’t argue that ‘love’ has a role in determining whether the government allows two people to get married. The government has never cared what the two people feel for one another. All they cared was that one was a man and another was a woman.

In any case, as I mentioned, it’s far too easy to lump everything into some behemoth called ‘equal rights’, and then decry those who object to certain parts of it. The Catholic church feels that homosexuals who stay celibate have done nothing wrong in the eyes of God.

There are many examples of society adhering to particular views which have then changed over time. Is part of the reason PC? I have no doubt. But I think the main reason is simple evolution.

I realize the example I’m about to cite is rather extreme but humour me. At one time it was thought homosexuals should be put to death. Thankfully, that is no longer the case, at least in the “civilized” world. This has nothing to do with PC. It’s just a simple matter of morals and values evolving over time.

As one Archbishop noted “The Church, of course, upholds absolutely the equal dignity of every person irrespective of their faith, age, ability and so on.”

The Vatican isn’t saying anything about homosexuality that they haven’t said all along. Frankly, homosexuals have more rights than a religious person does anyway.