Homosexuality is, yes, “accepted” in the catholic church.
The catechism says that those who are homosexual “**must be **accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.”
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No homosexuality is NOT accepted in the Catholic Church however the Church is one of sinners and sinners are part of the Church. The sin is not accepted but the person is. People who are practicing homosexuals are called to repentance just the same as thieves, adulteries, people who bare false witness etc.
What the Catechism says is
Chastity and homosexuality
2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,141 tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered."142 They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
We must respect the person. What is not respected is the sin. The sin as stated above is the act which is intrinsically disordered.
