By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - And when, more than a half-century ago, college boys and girls started going to bed with one another, many Americans, especially younger ones, said, “So what? It’s only a minor sin. It’s not as if it will lead to truly dreadful things like abortion and same-sex marriage.”... And today, when the question arises as to whether Catholic priests should give a blessing to homosexual unions, many Catholics, including some Catholic bishops, say, “Why not? It’s only a small thing. What harm can it do? It’s not as if we are endorsing same-sex marriage. We’d never do that.”