Tell me again why the Catholic Church thinks it has the moral high ground to condemn anybody much less my gay son

So once again we get smacked in the face with the reality of the "intrinsic moral evil" (Benedict's description of my gay son) of the Catholic Church's actions:

[A] report in May sought to document the scale of abuse as well as the reasons why church and state authorities didn't stop it, whereas Thursday's 720-page report focused on why church leaders in the Dublin Archdiocese – home to a quarter of Ireland's 4 million Catholics – did not tell police about a single abuse complaint against a priest until 1995. By then, the investigators found, successive archbishops and their senior deputies – among them qualified lawyers – already had compiled confidential files on more than 100 parish priests who had sexually abused children since 1940. Those files had remained locked in the Dublin archbishop's private vault.

This Church needs to step aside from judging anyone else until it get its own damn house in order. And while they are at it, they need to stop using the Sacrament of Communion as a weapon to get our country's lawmakers to vote a certain way.

Andrew is spot on about this:

If the Catholic church were a secular institution in Ireland and had been found guilty of child abuse to the massive extent the Church has, it would be forced to close. Its top officials would not be issuing statements of apology and regret, but serving sentences in jail. The name of John Paul II would not be a revered mantra; it would be synonymous with the head of an international organization that had to be dragged kicking and screaming to acknowledge its own long-running, institutional brutalization of generations of defenseless children.

In the name of Jesus.