Ezekiel 23:43-49. God is telling Ezekiel a story about two sisters, Oholah and Oholibah, who have lived lewdly and are adulteresses. God makes it clear, at the beginning of this story, that Oholah is Samaria and Oholibah is Jerusalem. The Jews' idolatry and turning away from God are the lewdness and adultery of which these "women" are guilty. Because they have profaned even the House of the Lord, bringing their lewdness there, and slaughtering their own children as sacrifices to their idols, a host shall be brought against them. The host will make them an object of terror: it will stone them, slay them and their sons and daughters with the sword, and burn down their houses. In this way God will put an end to the current lewdness and teach future generations not to behave in this way. Oholah and Oholibah shall thus bear the penalty for their sinful idolatry and all shall know that God is Lord.

God often portrays his people as as his bride, and our unfaithfulness as adultery. In fact, in the New Testament, Jesus is the bridegroom of the Church. His being among his people (and his second coming) are portrayed as a wedding feast, that those who are not properly prepared for cannot attend - like the foolish vigins or the poorly dressed man.

Here, God is comparing the idolatry of the two Jewish kingdoms (Israel and Judah ) to loose and unfaithful women. The people are worshiping false gods (even if they do not realize that they). They are still going to Temple, but their priorities are all wrong and they think they are justified in their wrongdoing, even to the point of killing their own children as a sacrifice to their false gods ("For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it." Ezekiel 23:39), which makes it so much worse.

The Church today is faced with much the same - many cultural norms of our times are clearly diametrically opposed to Catholic teaching, and many of the faithful are falling prey to the repackaging of these things as "good," and opposition to them as "hate" or evil. We have been brought to the point where we even have "Catholics for Choice" - people who truly, I think, believe they are doing good by supporting a woman's right to "choose" to kill her child. (At least I hope they think they are doing good!) But even if they have allowed themselves to be convinced that choice in abortion is "good", they are clearly not paying attention to the long-term damage that exercising this choice has on women, children, and society as a whole.

There are some things in which we are not meant to have a choice. God (often through biology) and the Church tell us what those things are. When we go our own way, it leads to our destruction. We are making an idol of our own feelings and desires and being unfaithful to our king and bridegroom.