This was one of the biggest reasons why I left the RCC years ago. The local archdiocese was all up in arms over the pending city charter giving healthcare coverage to domestic (ie, unmarried and same-sex) partners of city workers. The church circulated a petition. I pissed my family off by refusing to sign. "Love the sinner, hate the sin!" my mother intoned at me, like she knew what she was talking about, to which I promptly retorted, "How is taking someone's healthcare away loving them?!"

It was a very quiet car ride home that day. That was well over a decade ago. It seems the RCC still has not learned anything about Jesus since.