text: Without a change in the church’s teaching on sex and sexuality, can LGBT people ever hope to be treated with equality and justice by the hierarchy?  Indeed!  Can women?  What about the other faithful marginalized by what might be called the prevailing ecclesial  culture?
  
  The editorial speaks of the hierarchy without delving into the culture of that hierarchy.  Alas, the heart of the issue here is that, ultimately, what is really needed is a ‘culture change’ within the hierarchy.  For example, Catholics are going to continue to use artificial contraception in good, informed conscience, and the hierarchy condemns them for it at its own peril.
  
  It is folly to suppose that It is folly to suppose that the hierarchy has the only voice worth hearing on defining what constitutes a relationship driven by love, fidelity, truth and service to the ‘other,’ and issues related to sexual ethics, in theory or practice.