Moderate doesn't mean anything to these people. In fact, the more careful and sensible the person, the more infuriated they become. The problem is that even moderate views are deeply threatening to fundamentalists. One example might be Brown's observation that the wedding feast at Cana is not about a wedding, but about messianic revelation and the nature of  Christ's relationship to his mother: “Neither the external nor the internal evidence for a symbolic reference to matrimony is strong. The wedding is only the backdrop and occasion for the story, and the joining of the man and woman does not have any direct role in the narrative.”

Yet for those anxious to link this passage with "God made them male and female" and "for this reason a man shall leave . . . " and the bride and bridegroom and all the rest of it, this suggestion will never do. Scripture must point in the direction they say it points in. This usually means where the RC Church says it must go.