I'm not sure where this falls on the "things to confess" scale, but I have to admit I did smirk at the "Jesus had 2 dads and he turned out FINE" sign that one of the protesters was carrying. That's clever, in a silly way. If I were the type of person to counter-protest, I guess I would make a sign that said "...and if one of Bruce Jenner's dads was God the Father, he wouldn't have had gender dysphoria in the first place" or "You're right; He turned out FINE in that He didn't present Himself as a lady when He wasn't one", and then just stand there next to the guy until the protest ended.
I'm not sure how relevant this (my post) is to this thread, but I'll say it anyway: regardless of our confessions' teachings about / non-acceptance of same-sex marriage, we would do well to remember that there are children out there - more than a handful - raised, in effect, by "two moms" (or even two dads, I guess, though I don't know of any instances),
without any same-sex marriage. Mom ends up as a single mom for any number of reasons, her single or widowed sister or friend moves in and ends up acting as a "second mother." No challenge to traditional marriage, unrelated to questions about what constitutes a marriage - but these are families, too, and I know of nothing in Nicene Christianity that would allow us to question that. So the hard-line "if your family doesn't have a male and a female adult in it, the whole endeavor is
garbage" attitude that you can run into is unhelpful - and also not in line with Christian (specifically RC, for this subforum) teaching.
That isn't really the topic, and it's not a defense of the "two dads" sign, but it's what I thought of. In other words, human reality and the Gospel are - again, without even considering same-sex marriage or anything of the kind - rather more complex than a little sign can describe - as Pastor Hoke himself says.