Just for reference here is an article which discusses my comment concerning pope Francis...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/world/europe/pope-francis-gay-priests.html?_r=0ROME — For generations, homosexuality has largely been a taboo topic for the Vatican, ignored altogether or treated as “an intrinsic moral evil,” in the words of the previous pope.
In that context, brief remarks by Pope Francis suggesting that he would not judge priests for their sexual orientation, made aboard the papal airplane on the way back from his first foreign trip, to Brazil, resonated through the church. Never veering from church doctrine opposing homosexuality, Francis did strike a more compassionate tone than that of his predecessors, some of whom had largely avoided even saying the more colloquial “gay.”
“If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” Francis told reporters, speaking in Italian but using the English word “gay.”
As we have said many times in various threads here, Judaism doesn't hate the gay person but rather condemns a certain behavior. If the person with such forbidden urges is able to control them, he is capable of living a life which will be greatly rewarded (by not succumbing to the inclination to indulge in the forbidden relationship). But if a man should engage in the forbidden relationship he is liable to the punishment proscribed in the Torah. In todays world we have no Sandhedrin but the judgment and punishment of the sinner is done by Hashem himself. But we do not condone, nor do we suggest, that it is OK by the judgment of G-d..