As this is very sad, we cannot promote persons who are, how do we say, undermining the truth continuously with ambiguous actions and words, like Father Martin, who ultimately, with his style and words, is promoting sin in the Church, which is sodomy, homosexual acts. Sodomy is against the will of God, against nature, against reason. Those who practice this can never be happy because their reason and their nature tell them this is against the order which God created. They can only suppress the voice of their conscience and the end of their nature. You can suppress them, but you can never suppress their nature. It is a law. When you suppress nature, nature will revolt.
Those like Father Martin, with his words, encourage people even to practice homosexuality or, as he says, to provide pastoral care. He claims, I am not encouraging homosexual acts, but only providing pastoral care. Yet the fact remains, he encourages so-called homosexual relationships. He says it is acceptable if they live chastely. It is okay if they live chastely, but they declare themselves homosexuals and proclaim pride in this. This harms them. A homosexual couple is in continuous danger of sin because they publicly demonstrate engagement in a union based on sexual attraction, which is against nature. Therefore, they damage themselves and put themselves in the occasion of sin. It is irresponsible for a priest to encourage this.