Pull one thread – the celibacy requirement for priests, for example – and the whole edifice comes crashing down. Consider what has happened to liberalizing Protestant denominations, which, for all their good intentions, have lost adherents.
只要牵一发——比如牧师的独身要求——就能动全身。解放新教就是一例，他们出发点良好，但失去了信徒。