According to Andrew Sullivan, it’s in the West and it’s in loosening up

on sexual morality and the role of women. I guess these are connected,

since it’s hard to see the third-world constituency for a watered-down

Catholicism. But how plausible is this even in the West? The churches

that have altered historic moral teachings to be up-to-date have been

declining for years. Jonah the other day talked about the pundit’s

fallacy of assuming that political parties will prosper when they do

what you want them to do–I think we have a religious pundit’s fallacy

here.