If the Catholic Church could have normalized pedophilia, it certainly would have made it easier on the priesthood. The idea that morality is "relative," as in whatever, overlooks the fact we are all the same species and consequently fit within some fairly basic patterns.

For instance, sex is a binary that predates the split between flora and fauna, while people are a spectrum. So yes, with billions of these little organic beings, being born and dying in a constant process, there are going to be people all over the map. The current situation is this effort to invert the relationship and make what is naturally fringe into core, is breaking down a lot of basic social connections. I'm from the Baltimore area and of the age where John Waters was our contribution to the culture. I think even he would be depressed by this situation, because it, cross dressing, is being "co=opted." Like the revolution.

The thing is that as reality is cyclical, the young tend to be liberal, in the sense of anything goes. Got to go out and take on the world. While us old folks have been around the block enough times to have some sense of what works and what doesn't, so we are more conservative. Lessons of age.

It is just the facade of our youthful hopes and liberalism has coalesced into its own crusty beliefs. So it has become the cultural core. Thus the new conservatism.

I'm not so much knocking anyone, just making the point that things are spinning out of control and a lot of the mental frames we take for granted are not holding up well in a turbo charged age.

So my view is not to take sides in all the various conflicts, but to try to understand the basic dynamics driving them.

Here is an essay, where my main point is to sort out how we model reality, versus what the larger reality is doing;

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-western-mind-906dc73cffe2