[ksen]

Is encouraging defiance to the Church's leaders a good role for the laity?

It seems that the leaders themselves are doing a good enough job of encouraging the laity to become defiant.

[SoothingDave]

It seems that the leaders themselves are doing a good enough job of encouraging the laity to become defiant.

Well, yes, but that isn't really the point. It is one thing to be disgusted with certain persons in the leadership. It is quite another to generalize this into a general principle.

SD