Please read every word of this and please write to Andrew Sullivan, Bill O'Reilly and Maureen Dowd, as well as your local newspapers. CC the bishops but don't bother writing directly to them..or do if you want.
Especially if you are Catholic. And if you were for one minute, you still are, so don't worry about your status in the church. It can't be worse than the pope's.
Somewhere in Andrews's blog is a picture in the styule of a holy card of a little altar boy. FInd it and weep. mg