text: ATF.....if I read the 8th chapter of AL even remotely correctly, and digested the Synods even sort of....and absorbed at least some of Francis....I am pretty sure that a "one size fits all" condemnation of any behaviour....is simply not the deal...
  
  I regret that I never took a moral theology course...but I think that there are imperatives relative to just how free one is...just how mature one is just how responsible one is for just about any act....and that personal conscience (right or wrong) is the ultimate arbiter...
  
  I am sorry that your youth was impacted by prejudice...ot here in the west my parents got married in a church sanctuary....with only my aunt and uncle attending....(prot/Catholic deal) 
  
  Many years later for their 45th wedding anniversary we gave them a bi church wedding and full reception including a dinner for several hundred and a wedding cake and napkins with their names on them!