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Question IV The Catholic Church continues to stand by its distinction between "natural" sex (heterosexual, married) and "unnatural" sex (homosexual, outside the sanctity of marriage) in a time when society is becoming increasingly accepting of "alternative" lifestyles. Do you think the Church is becoming any more or less tolerant? Should it by definition not be tolerant? Will unwavering commitment to this stance lead to an eventual decline in the authority of the Church? Or would altering the doctrine as it applies to contraception, female and gay priests, abortion, gay marriage and masturbation be an invitation to contumacy throughout the whole of the religion?

Catholicism is not a popularity contest. It is not run by polls. As a professed atheist who left the Church thirty years ago, I have never understood the infantile need of many people to force religious institutions, like Mama and Papa, to approve of them. If you don't like the draconian Catholic code, which held Western civilization together for a thousand years after the fall of Rome, then get out and start your own damned church. But for pity's sake, stop whining! If you can't be gay without guilt, that's your problem, not the Church's. Kissling responds

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