You remind me that the official catechism of the Catholic Church is filled with grotesquely hateful language about LGBTQ people, calling us disordered and committers of "grave depravity."

In defense of that shocking hate speech, Catholic hierarchy point to language saying that Catholics should avoid any unjust discrimination against us.

But if any institution in the United States is guilty of systematic, constant discrimination against LGBTQ people, it is the Roman Catholic Church.

In the headlines this week, the Catholic Church in Colorado is filing a lawsuit because they want to get paid by the state to run preschools, but they want to exclude children whose parents are gay and transgender – which not only is against state law but contractually disqualifies them from running preschools for the program they wish to participate in.

Church leaders want to build a system of taxpayer-funded discrimination.

Sadly, with the new federal judiciary, they are highly likely to get their way. Official discrimination will be the law of the land in Colorado, and the Catholic Church will have enforced the savage speech in its catechism without respect to its so-called opposition to discrimination.