"Church arguments on natural law have no resonance with the general population."

Church arguments on natural law as they relate to gender and sexual expression have no resonance with nature itself, on which natural law is supposed to be based. When it comes to homosexuality, natural law should have recognized centuries ago that that is something which occurs in every species of the animal kingdom and is therefore natural for some. But since Aquinas himself didn't personally observe this in nature, and since the church calcified his teachings into rigid law after his death (at least where sex is concerned) the church now teaches that homosexuality is somehow "against nature," as if that were even possible. Curiously, on other matters the church has taken into account new data and evolved in terms of its teaching: the stewardship of the earth, for example, as opposed to the old way of using Genesis in order to assert that God has given us "dominion" over it to exploit for our own use.