[polemikos]

Codswallop. The Reformers upheld Scripture as the highest and final rule

Codswallop indeed. Protestantism's ultimate lack of authority, with every man his own pope, turns Sacred Scripture into a "living document" and reduces the faith to "mere Christianity". The so-called Reformers exercised more personal latitude in determining Scripture and interpreting texts than any pope has ever done.

Traditional Christian teaching on contraception was abandoned in the 1930's. Scriptural prohibtions were abandoned in favor of modern interpretive frameworks -- exactly the situation today. Scripture is still being twisted to meet current social "needs". Abortion "exceptions", gay "marriage", you name it. It's all there. It's all cut from the same cloth.

Protestants simply don't agree on what the Bible says about spiritual and moral matters. And Protestants don't have the authority to stop the formation of Protestant "queer theology" churches.

[RansomOttawa]

Protestantism's ultimate lack of authority, with every man his own pope, turns Sacred Scripture into a "living document" and reduces the faith to "mere Christianity".

If Scripture is a "living document," it is the theological left that has so characterized it, not evangelical Protestantism based on the theology of Luther or Calvin.

And notwithstanding your attempt to caricature it as a Protestant problem, the Romanists are not immune from factions of liberalism. Clean your own house first, since you imply the Roman church has the authority to do so. Then come worry about ours.