text: God's stake in this issue is human happiness, generally, not just personally. He has no personal stake and there is no natural order to hold that stake for Him. Paul was protecting the institutional leadership, but he damaged the authority of the papacy more by a baldly Asexual Manifesto that reflected the views and sexuality of 1% of Catholics than if he had conceived that Pius XI was inadequately informed, ignored Otavanni and endorsed a change in doctrine on birth control.