As a Catholic I guess I'll weigh in.
Their whole stance stems from ANYTHING outside of sex for the sole purpose of procreation is a sin. So you jerked off? Sin. Wife gave you a beej? Sin. You banged two women at the same time? Sin. So yeah, gay sex is also sin for them. By extension, this is why abortion is a sin as it is not procreating.
My cynicism leads me to think that through the middle ages, mortality was so high they needed a way to convince the populace to pump out babies since 50% of them die. Big population is good for business, and that's really what it boils down to. The church was fabulously rich while everyone was poor. Best way to get the serfs to procreate is guilt them by making everything a sin. Gay people are having zero babies, so they make that a sin.
Since it takes about 500 years for the Church to change anything, look for this not to change in your lifetime. The gross hypocrisy and corruption is of course not lost on me.
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