Understood. And there were quite a few people within the hierarchy of the Catholic Church over the last few decades who decided that they didn't want to impose any rigid morality on their parishioners, either.
The problem was that you never understood this was a two-way street . . . and we weren't supposed to impose OUR morality on THEM. Instead, we were supposed to look the other way while they allowed priests to violate our children in the sacristy, and shuffled these priests from one place to another to keep them out of trouble.
[I say this as a Catholic myself, just in case anyone wants to accuse me of launching an anti-Catholic rant here.]
Your post is quite correct. I can't argue with it at all.
A perceptive comment that is true in more ways than one.