text: I've always appreciated your voice Randy, and you raise an interesting point here.  I'd offer a different perspective.
  As a once-upon-a-time Catholic, I can appreciate the appeal of that ancient and often beautiful liturgy.  And the idea of an individual standing up against aspects of that doctrine (birth control, homosexuality), while many do, is basically folly.  And the alternatives to the history and magnitude of that religious 'grandeur' are minimal.
  What we're talking about here--as I understand it--is a small, community church, where there are numerous alternatives; and where it is one important voice in hundreds, not one insignificant voice in hundreds of million.  To me that makes an important difference.