A dialog cannot take place until a mutually accepted definition of terms is achieved. There is a fundamental difference between the Protestant concept of freedom and the Catholic concept of freedom. The Protestant belief is centered on the notion that a free person man do whatever they please. The Catholic belief is centered on a person being free from sin and its enslaving encumberances.
Pax et Bonum.
No, you are giving them too much credit. There is no rational thinking here that I could detect. “We don’t like monasticism, therefore monastic vows do not exist”. It’s a logic of a five year old. No wonder we have gay “marriage” legal in an electorate formed by Protestant values.