text: No, we do not check our brains at the door in natural law matters when the purpose of the Church is less to discover or explain morality as to preserve the consistency of its positions. That is politics, not philosphy or religion. Tax exemption is not even an issue.
  
  If the logic escapes you that CDF had to call being gay unnatural to keep calling gay sex unnatural then you have not been paying attention. If gayness is from God so is gay sex.
  
  Dawkins sees miracle stories as self-serving, but we don't have to save-his sould, only to heed what he says when he points out flaws in our Church. Not heeding either external or self criticism is our besetting evil. It is what the world does. The Catholic Church departed from the true washing of the feet long enough ago to make the Holy Thursday ritual a sick joke. Our Pope gets it, but the bishops and cardinals do love their purple and red finery and their titles of Excellency, Grace and Eminence, which are of human origin and usage.