text: When the institutional Church teaches the hogwash that is Humanae Vitae, when it treats women as second class members,  when it actively discriminates against gays, when it covers up clerical abuse of children, when it excommunicates the divorced and remarried, when the Vatican is shown to have hundreds of millions in slush funds, when it actively lies to us , why do should people listen? 
  
  Two of my sons have rejected the Church. I didn't cause it, the institutional Church did.