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To be even-handed here:
The other night I saw a play called "The Laramie Project". A bunch of thespians and writers traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, the site of one of the worst gay-bashing incidents ever. For USians who remember, it was Matthew Shepard. And they basically interviewed the town; conducted 200 interviews of people. And it turned out to be the Catholic priest who was the conscience of the town. He was a true leader and he decided on his own to hold candlelight vigils, to mourn what happened, to speak out against it so that it would never happen again.
Now, to his dismay, a lot of the other church leaders in town decided that because homosexuality was involved that they wouldn't take a stand or, in a few cases, promoted the notion that the victim "asked for it". But in general the town learned to mourn Matthew Shepard and found some good in a terrible event.
This priest was truly a focus for good and a moral leader. So there's the other side of the story.
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