[€uroMeinke]

The world is full of contradictions and sometime I think we drive ourselves mad trying to find a consitent path through it all. "Moving on" for me is accepting the contradictions, that your support for one thing or issue needn't carry with it a whole host of attachted beliefs and condemnations. We're just to complex to be treated that simply - but we do it all the time.

Any group writ big like "Catholics" will have problems as well as benefits. Their current dogma may rub you the wrong way, but you recognize it's influence on your heritage and know some great people involved in the church - why should you exclude them? If anything, I think keeping the relationships and all their tensions and contradictions going is that irritation that ultimately results in great changes - though maybe not in our lifetime.

But it's your lifetime that you'll be experienceing so, to some extent you may have to bakc off the larger "casues" and focus on what it is that makes you happy - and be unashamed in pursuing it - be that gay sex or Christmas Mass. Becasue while those two things might appear contradictory to the current touted dogma of the day, they live fine side by side within you and it needn't be your job to resolve it.