By Garrett Johnson, Crisis Magazine - First, I heard it from some Catholic lay people: “Who are a bunch of celibate men to tell us anything about our sexuality?” Then I heard it from a Religious brother: “The Church should change her teachings. Gays should be allowed to marry.” Next, it came from a priest... Then, from a bishop... And now, from Pope Francis: “Being homosexual is not a crime…God loves us as we are.” These words are a great darkness to the light I have been given through the Church—who now, in her false compassion, seeks to put me back in the same prison from which she previously helped free me.