[Morgana]

“Seems to me that many Ministries are going soft on all these issues,”

In my opinion, no they are not. They are just finally showing their true colors.

[Rashputin]

You got that right. For all the talk about Catholics not preaching against abortion I went to many a Baptist church and never heard a peep about abortion. When I asked the pastor at several of those churches about it I got a lengthy spiel about individual conscience and God leading the individual, not once a definite yes or no.

It's a national disease of the spirit, not something limited to one group or another. People in this country have taken personal, individual, authority to the extreme and vote with their feet whenever anyone or any organization dares to tell them there are limits. They'll sit around and theorize an exception that suits their personal tastes and then decide they can't hang with anyone who doesn't bless or agree with their exception.

Churches, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, are trying to fight a spiritual battle against principalities and powers with the tools of this world rather than fighting the battle on with the unbeatable tools Christ has given us. As long as Christians try to rely on reason rather than faith, they'll keep losing ground.