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Oh, signing on completely to the Church's teaching on sexual and medical ethics is really hard, no doubt. And I think a significant number of Catholics deal with it by just living with a constant baseline level of hypocrisy in their own private behavior, (I think most draw the line before abortion.)
But I'm not sure that the solution is for the Church to modify its teachings necessarily. Their concerns may rightly be focused only on the more spiritual or metaphysical aspects, but of course, I can't say for sure. There's no historic reason to particularly assume the Church has no political motivation for a given teaching.
I doubt that God takes a hard "love it or leave it" attitude about the Church, but I get frustrated a little when people think the church should modify its teachings rather than just maybe that they shouldn't worry about being Catholic when they don't agree with the positions.
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