text: A reason for doubt about  Church rules on sexuality is the scornful dismissal of expertise and experience--physiological, gynecological, marital, psychological, laity, and more--in considering what is "normal," "right," and "beneficial." 
  
   Those who know best are ignored most.
  
  The "dialogue" has been ongoing, but there has been no respect--indeed there's derision--for what the learned laity say. The hierarchy says 2+2=4! Enough! But the laity--comprising females--say, "But we know firsthand that 3+1=4 is OK too. It's not a competition, Father."    
  
  From hierarchy there is no trust. In women. In lovers. In spouses. In parents. In science. In medicine. In intimacy. In lives lived and loved. Isn't that a sin too?
  
  Consider:  Raymond Burke is more authoritative on human sexuality than is the dean of a medical school, a family doctor, a geneticist, a female theologian, or a sexually active Catholic wife and husband.
  
  He's not IGNORANT. But often he's ignorant. Not a fault. But no virtue.