Just to be sure I understand...

Communication is difficult, and I thank you, Michael P., for your patience in helping me understand.  What I hear you saying is that your theology does not inform your sexual ethics and that your sexual ethics are informed by your understanding of the natural law.  Is that correct?  If not, what did I miss. 

Your Christmas Eve post discusses (if I read that post correctly) what moral theology ought to take seriously in the realm of human sexuality.  In your most recent posts you seem to switch from theology to a philosophical position uninformed by theology.  Maybe, I am missing something, but that is the source of my confusion.

As for "ideological partisanship," my dear Michael P., you ought to know by now that my emphasis is on "transcend" rather than "liberal" or "conservative" as this has been  consistent theme of mine on this blog - where we can transcend these labels and this partisanship, we ought to do so and Cathy has framed some issues that allow quite nicely, as she her says, for us to do just that.