text: One would think that since this issue has vexed the church for the better part of two millennia they would have come to better resolution, n'est pas?  
  
  What does it take our hierarchs to understand that the teaching is based on chiefly misunderstanding of human sexuality and the political hegemony of patriarchy?  
  
  If the church repeatedly clings to a teaching that is demonstrably against the very nature of  even the men who constitute the priesthood [both historically and currently], that someone along the line would have gotten the idea that maybe this teaching is a form of idolatry?  Dontcha' think?
  
  Why would a hierarchy of a church that follows the teachings of the Beatitudes continually ask men to lie everyday about the fundamental truth of their being, their person?