Does God accept you as a sinner, or do you have to approach him in perfection?
I think the message is that everyone needs to get right with God. How can the Church take people where they are, and encourage them to conform their lives to God?
Clearly, the Church is doing something wrong, as we witness the rise in cohabitation, divorce, and all things homosexual.
So, how should the Church respond? How can it do a better job of teaching the Gospel? How can imitate the model of Christ? He ate with the tax collectors, and showed mercy to the prostitute. He offered the bread of life to Samaritan woman who had 5 husbands.
How can we, as members of the Church, follow those examples? Jesus didn’t water down his teachings for those people. He didn’t “accept” them continuing their sin. Rather, he opened Himself to them, encouraged them with love, and opened their hearts to His law.
The “Church” needs to get its own house in order.
Yes, we are all sinners. That is why Christ died for us. But the Bible clearly tells us that idolaters, drunkards, the sexually immoral, homosexuals, slanderers, liars, will not inherent the Kingdom of God. If the Catholic Church starts opening the door to “accepting” certain sinful acts, then that is clearly open rebellion against God, and He will not stand for it. The key is to repent, as Christ said. No child of Christ would say, “Well, I am Christian, but a current whore monger and thief. I can keep on doing it, because we have a lot of pull with the Vatican.” We must turn away, turn around, and stop sinning.