This happened at the Synod for one reason and one reason only. A leftist Jesuit priest by the name of Francis is now pope. Nothing will improve in the church as long as he remains pope. Barack Obama might as well be pope.
Pope Francis made an outstanding contribution to the Humanum Conference of the Complementarity of Man and Woman which underscores the religious and Natural Law understanding of male/female as constitutive to the reality of marriage.
You are too quick to equate Francis and Obama.