> What upsets me personally is that it is somebody I have grown to respect and like is supporting this by reducing its importance to a few criminals a long time ago.

Yeah. That upsets me too. Because I too both like and respect you, Joe. A lot. In so many ways you represent the best of Christian ideals. (And yes, I do know priests about whom I can say the same.) That's why this willful blindness is so disturbing.