I think the panel, as reported, and even the many posted comments are an important part of the churches not simply following the culture, but attempting a difficult discernment which both enlarges traditional Christian understandings and seeks to serve the larger culture by bringing such traditional and developed Christian understandings into an often (even typically) simplistic cultural debate and movement.  I just wish there was as much passionate discussion about support for the kinds of marriage and childbearing that the vast majority of people in our culture still seek.  Yes, developing our understandings is crucial for our LGBT brothers and sisters, but tremendous focus on their good has tended (in my judgment) to derail sustained attention to the far larger and far more important crisis in sexual-marital-familial relationships among the rest of us.  Francis' "Amoris Laetitia" has given us a context for such attention and discussion.