Answering one who argues that the Church must keep up with the times...

Matthew, don't you realize that in seeking to get the Church to change on these issues which are in current vogue you are asking her to lose her identity? She does not make these things up on her own. They are prescribed by a Higher Authority which the Church is submissive to. What makes the Church beautiful is not that she obeys the fashion of the culture she is in, but in that she takes her cues from the Creator Himself. This is when she is truly beautiful and unique. We already have plenty of institutions that comply with the culture. We don't need another.