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Not that it would change MY mind, but if you want to impress Catholics, make sure Protestant churches are rid of the sexual abuse, rather than just deflecting back to the Catholic churches. Saying, “it’s different, because we can’t do anything about it!” doesn’t make children any safer. In fact, it proves to us that we need to stay in the episcopal structures which give the Catholic church the responsibility over the priests which you deride as if it were proof that the Catholic church is evil. (And yes, you CAN do something about it.)

Also, win back some of the larger denominations. Why join the OPC, when it’s already showing the liberal rot that turned the PCUSA into a homosexual abuse-approving, abortion-worshiping, anti-semitic, communist pile of refuse? We’re bringing Catholicisim back from the brink of socialism; the Protestants just seem resigned to lose 80% of their congregations to liberalism every other generation.

Any while you’re at it, try to get out in front of the Catholics on moral doctrine once in a while? For a century, the Protestants have been played by the secularists into supporting contraception, masturbation, divorce, abortion, etc., Thank God, Catholics are no longer the only major denomination to oppose abortion. But we could use a little support on issues like contraception, masturbation and divorce. It seems like so many Protestant groups only care about homosexuality, when only a few percent of all Americans struggle with that.

It seems like so many Protestant groups only care about homosexuality, when only a few percent of all Americans struggle with that.

Exactly.

While it's great that many Protestant groups condemn homosexuality, they often have a bad habit of overlooking many of the other sins related to sex. And actually, while many of those sins may not be as bad, they are having a worse effect on America than homosexuality since they are so much more common. When "socially conservative" Protestants say that "gay marriage" will destroy the institution of marriage in America, I have to disagree. It has already been destroyed by many other sins, such as no-fault divorce, which many "socially conservative" Protestants refuse to condemn.

Maybe it has to do with the fact that homosexual sex does not appeal to most of them, but divorce and masturbation do.