text: Just wondering.  Why have you given the church a capitalized female pronoun "Her", when it is ruled by males?  It seems to me to be a male only institution. It appears that women are only tolerated if they pray and obey and make up the numbers.  
  
  Again, I ask you, do you really think imprisonment of gays is something Jesus would do?  Really?
  
  As far as NCR's audience, I am an old lady who has been married for more than 50 years.  I read NCR.  I cannot be classified by being one of the "Very liberal people who have left the Church or who are at extreme odds with the Church and Her authentic teachings".  I am one of the core members of the church.  I married in the church, raised and educated our children in the faith, continue to attend, despite the terrible attitudes of those who would imprison gays for being how God made them.  I continue to hope and pray that the Holy Spirit will ultimately transform the hardened hearts and minds of the hierarchy to become more Christ like.  One day