Parishes close when churches adopt a “me too” policy towards the values, morals, and beliefs of secular culture. When that happens, the church is deemed expendable. “If the salt loses its savor, it is fit only to be trampled underfoot.” (Or something like that; I’m not Jack van Impe, and don’t have the Bible memorized.)
Just so - depravity is disguised as tolerance, acceptance, ‘pride,’ etc which fools the gullible because it looks like a campaign of positivity when it is the opposite.
Unfortunately, churches justifiably predisposed to positive messages mistakenly believe these cynical leftist PR campaigns are aligned with religious teaching. Their message gets muddled, even neutralized.
Sure, why go to church to learn those values when you can learn them down on the street corner...
The sooner the church starts removing the sodomites and starts telling the truth the sooner they will be on the road to recovery.....