As father of a transgender male, I am genuinely glad Stowe is trying to move the giant stone up the hill. However I've had enough of waiting for the Church to become more humane in its teachings. It finally  hit me a few months ago: Why in the world am I sticking by a church that, as a matter of policy, considers my son hell-bound for simply being who he is? I now feel like a moron for telling myself the Church was still worthy of my support since it does other good works. But other churches also do as much, if not more, social good than Roman Catholicism, and a couple of them are welcoming to the LGBT community, as in the Episcopal Church. Guess where we're headed? We attend a Jesuit parish in Charlotte, NC, that for years has done its best to do right by LGBTers, but in the end, that's not enough - not when the local bishop is old-school, pre-Vatican II conservative, and our new pastor, unlike previous Jesuit pastors here, is scared of him.