[Conservative til I die]

What the heck does this mean? We've got all these different rites and latin and eastern whatevers that are taking different stances on the issue.

Your confusion/frustration tells me you should read up on this to better understand the relationships/hierarchy/authority structure/history of the Eastern Churches.

[marajade]

Read up on what? Like I stated in my post, why not just practice what the book of Timothy says and be done with it. Much simpler to me.