If Mother Kirk encourages you to hold any other person in contempt, know that she’s a liar.
Drown her out with the words of the Father, who tells you that the object of your contempt is someone created in the Divine image — a God neither male nor female, and yet, mysteriously and wonderfully, revealed in women as much as in men. And if you feel conflicted, remember Augustine, whose use of “whore” I’ll substitute here:
“The Church is a gay-bashing, macho, unloving bully, and she is my Mother.”