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well, I am a former Methodist (check)
I come from a town with a homosexual woman as Lutheran pastor, she took off Christmas week to go on cruise with her girlfriend (check)
I could have gone down the street to the UCC but ... “all paths lead to God” uh no thanks (check)
The Presbys have a nice church, and the pastor had a very attractive wife and nice family but a homosexual prostitute he met in the big city beat him up pretty bad (check)

Now I go to Mass every week but haven’t made the plunge yet

” well, I am a former Methodist (check)
I come from a town with a homosexual woman as Lutheran pastor, she took off Christmas week to go on cruise with her girlfriend (check)
I could have gone down the street to the UCC but ... “all paths lead to God” uh no thanks (check)
The Presbys have a nice church, and the pastor had a very attractive wife and nice family but a homosexual prostitute he met in the big city beat him up pretty bad (check)”

Gotta be the east coast : )

Find a true southern Baptist church. I grew up SBC then wandered to a Methodist church with my wife. After about 4 years of seeing how they spent my tithes and hearing milk-toast sermons, I took my wife back to a Baptist church.

well, I am a former Methodist...

Every major denomination has split into at least two, with the liberal Situation Ethicists (cf. Joseph Fletcher) in one and the orthodox in the other. Among Lutherans, the ELCA is liberal, the LCMS (and Wisconsin Synod) are orthodox; among Presbyterians, the PCUSA is liberal, the PCA and RPC are orthodox; among Baptists, the American Baptists are liberal, the Southern Baptists are orthodox; in the Episcopal church, the orthodox are increasingly associating with overseas bishops such as in Uganda, while the liberals take over the American leadership. The United Methodist Church is the only non-splitter among the mainstream Protestant denominations, but it is becoming a shell of its former self, with the orthodox basically leaving for other orthodox denominations, either Wesleyan or non-Methodist.

I left the UMC for the LCMS in 1989 and haven't looked back since--ironically enough, it was the experience of Lutheran Cursillo in 1982 that was the first eye-opener, and a former Baptist missionary who had become LCMS who led me there.

"Now I go to Mass every week but haven’t made the plunge yet"

Do. You won't regret it. I took the plunge a few years back after being unchurched for forty years (cradle Episcopalian of the Anglo-Catholic "branch"). The plunge in the Tiber is invigorating, to say the least.

Silverleaf, the doctrine of the Catholic Church is always going to be on you side as far as sexual morality goes --- always. And you have to contend with sinners anywhere. But of the Catholic Church it can always be said, "The more Catholic it is, the more Holy it is." The problems will stem from many not being Catholic enough.

I would urge the Catholic Scouting people to leave the BSA and go get affiliated under the Knights of Columbus youth program, the Columbian Squires. Now would be a great time for them to mesh the BSA-style camping, hunting, fishing, survival-skills strong points into their Church Youth program.