Rather ironic that the church would pick up this same practice.
Not really, just look at the time Christ came to his people and periods even before that. The turning over the tables at the temple, the condemnation of those who where charged with passing on the scriptures and its teachings, because it was their own version and not His even to the outside observer they would have some difficulty distinguishing that at least at first. Their hypocrisy, washing only the outside of the dish but never the inside as our Lord said.
People have a free will, they are free to choose God or to reject him even in His own Church. Right now Our Lord is chastising his Church by giving us exactly what we wanted for some time which is one of the worst chastisement he can send along and in conjunction with the worst one he can throw upon his people, giving us bad priests via the homosexual culture which directly comes from the contraceptive mentality of the laity, hence the form of punishment. No one should be really surprised by all of this, read the old testament and look what happened to our Lord.