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Issues we discuss and debate here are settled for the overwhelming majority of people: They see celibate men dictating to married couples about the most intimate aspects of their lives; effeminate men worrying about the “feminization of the church”; gay men trying to exclude homosexuals from the priesthood: and they dismiss it all as preposterous, which it is.
The magisterium needs a renewed theology of human sexuality. To achieve it, the magisterium needs to abandon its old presuppositions and start to listen to the experience of the People of God and access the insights of the sacred and human sciences.
[This is the second two-part response I've posted to you in less than twenty-four hours. I'm sorry for being a bit verbose; I'll stand down now.]