Do you think the Church should become more tolerant?

I quite agree with you. It is time that they dropped their patriarchal attitudes about women and allowed them to practice their faith to the full if they choose to. Women have proven that they are able to perform at the highest level and it is time the church stopped being so sexist.

As for their attacks on homosexuals it is totally wrong to condemn someone for their sexuality. People are born with this sexuality so how can it possibly be against God's desire. Since they believe we are all made in God's image and these people are born with this sexuality then God must approve.

Some members of the church have tolerance but the main body is trying to stamp it out. It will be interesting to see if the minority can maintain their beliefs and be allowed to follow them without being punished.

There are a lot of books in the bible and evidence that Jesus allowed men and women to practice and preach. Many of the books in the bible were written by male priests after Jesus died and follow the patriachal attitude towards women that their role in life is simply to bear children and be subservient to men. The catholics tell men to honor their mother but not their wife. This causes major problems.

I am a woman. I cannot and will not accept that this is my only purpose in being alive. I cannot accept that a woman who is no longer a virgin is nothing but scum. This is just men wanting to rule the world and has nothing to do with God at all. I grew up in a patriarchal household and I rebelled against it. I have a mind, I have ideas I have a right to express them. I have no interest in a religion that tells me I am a second class person just because I am female.

I do not accept that people are born in sin. I think the invention of sin was one of the worst things that religion ever did to people, it has left them full of guilt because they were born with a different sexual orientation or because they were born women.

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I think it is about people following their hearts and not blindly following church dogma. I have no idea what will happen to the church if their bosses decide to act on their threat.

I agree with you but the Catholic church still has a lot of political influence and power. I have met Catholics who would doubt their own minds if the pope told them to. I met a girl once who was a mathematician but she said that if the pope told her that 2 and 2 did not equal 4 she would believe him because he was the pope even though she knows that this would be believing a lie.

To me this says that they are brainwashed. I knew a woman once who lost her faith when she found out the priest had lied to her.

I agree with you. I think this is an example of people following their hearts and being condemned for it. I do not know what will happen to the church or the priests who work there.