Explain the hilighted phrase please.
Have you ever have to ask your parents permission to do things you wanted to do when you were young? Were you Obedient to your parents? if so, then it is the same principle with the Catholic Church. OBEDIENCE and HUMILITY.
You're not a child though, and the servile, slavish conditions that you've allowed to be imposed on you cannot be compared to asking yer ma' if you can stay up past your bedtime. It's the fact that you would allow any relationship you enter to be branded inferior, and not just that, believe it yourself that disgusts me. That is why you are spineless.
You needn't be obedient of anything but the law, and I don't even look at that as binding if it makes no sense to me.

