text: There are two chief obstacles to effecting a change in church teaching about homosexuality, both of which have been "litigated" to death on this board:
  1.  The historically and theologically untenable claim that the church can't change its moral teaching.
  2.  The realization that pulling at any of the threads of official teaching about human sexuality (masturbation, contraception, homosexuality) and the whole ball of string unravels.
  Some day, a pope or council will issue a statement effectively changing church teaching.  It will be easy to spot: it will begin with, "As the church has always taught ..." or, "As our Venerable Predecessor said ..." This will happen as it dawns on the powers-that-be that the praxis of the People of God has already effected the change.