You hate to come off as condescending or rude, yet still you manage to soldier through and do it anyway.
I'm glad that you've had such a positive experience with religion, but I'm sorry to say that the evidence regardless points overwhelmingly in the opposite direction.
The fact that indoctrination hasn't happened to you doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. I've seen it happen to a few friends of mine, who have as a consequence assumed lesser roles in my life. I wouldn't go so far as to call the institution itself evil, but there is an evil within. This isn't specific to the Catholic Church, but most Christian denominations. If it's any consolation, I would call the Mormon Church the "grand villain to social equality".
The church does not support homosexuality, whether or not they overtly treat gays as second-class citizens notwithstanding. They not only refuse to perform same-sex marriages, as revealed by this discussion, they also refuse to place children in same-sex households. Furthermore, the church encourages homosexuals under its wing to pursue a life of celibacy, which is as unhealthy as it is socially backward. If you wish to dispute this, you should know it was revealed to me by a Catholic gay altar boy who I interviewed as part of a research assignment I did on religion in my final year of high school - and the most disturbing part of all? He said it as though it was the most normal thing in the world.