[xzins]

A church's official position is just that.

Anyone who doesn't follow it is open to criticism. One can only assume that the church keeps affirming their official postion because most folks want it that way.

[where HE leads me]

What is the point in them affirming something when they do the opposite? Is it to have something to point to when people question them and say, "Oh, no! This is our official stance."

It was hypocrisy like this that drove me from institutional religion.