A conservative friend responded to my first answer to this question by challenging my account of the Port St. Lucie Statement. Of course we progressives must hear that you do not remember the Port St. Lucie statement that way, and must accept the fact that you do not remember it that way. However, we cannot accept that the way you remember it is the way that it was. It is no more helpful to deny progressives our understanding of Port Lucie than it is for us to deny conservatives your understanding.
Reconciliation is hard work.
It will not likely happen if parties on either side feel they must not name the truth as they understand it. One reason that I projected my response to matters 25 years from now regarding the current conflicts is that I don't want to negotiate with any false expectations about what I seek. The Spirit will not lead most dioceses into permitting them if the blessed relations fail to manifest the fruits of the Spirit. Gamaliel's principle is not open ended but implies that there is a time at which the body can assess the effects of innovation. Nor is it spiritually healthy for anyone continually to demand that others give them by force what they have not been able to receive by winning the hearts of deputies.