Yeah, it's a whole different story, Musket. If you sit in a pew in a typical US Catholic church (or in most of the "mainline" denominations), the sin addressed is likely to be society's failure to care for the homeless and the immigrant. It is highly unlikely that you will hear condemnation of homosexuality or other sexual conduct from the pulpit of a typical U.S. Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopalian, Congregationalist, or (West Coast) Methodist church.

We had a bishop speak in our parish this week, and I think he made a number of our parishioners quite nervous when he started talking about "distribution of wealth" and the scandal of the "one percent" owning so much while others own so little. Catholic bishops in the U.S. say a lot about poverty and immigration, and not much about sexual morals. Unfortunately, they turned a blind eye to the sexual misconduct of priests, and that was a terrible scandal.

-Joe-