"It is breaking the law of the Church in the sense of Christian teaching... the teaching still is that active homosexual practice is not compatible with the teaching of scripture, " he said.
There are plenty of metaphors and allegories in scripture, but the plain reading of the text does not in any way indicate that Genesis is an example of this.
Taken as beliefs, they are teeming nests of unwarranted assumptions that are not required to pass any tests of merit, but are maintained largely because they are found in scripture or accepted by tradition.