What change has it made in the hierarchy? If anything, the hierarchy has gotten more conservative.
I really don't understand staying in a church that doesn't support your view of what is right and which clearly won't be changed from within. I'm not trying to be an ass or say anything about supporting bigotry or anything like that, but why continue? As an atheist, I staying in the Catholic church because it was important to my mom (whole long story I can get into some other point--she died never knowing I was an atheist because she would have disowned me and my kids had she known) and because I thought it would be good for my kids to have some sense of community and understanding of Christianity. When my son came home and told us that his Sunday School teacher said that gay people were going to hell (something obviously supported by the hierarchy of the church), I'd had enough. That was also in the middle of the pedophile scandals coming out. I could have continued to go while not believing but could no longer in good conscience give my support of numbers (I did not give them any money) nor expose my children to that any longer. Had I been a believer still, I would have moved to the Episcopal Church. We found that the local UU Fellowship fit our views very nicely. Our kids loved it there (them both being atheists probably helped--my wife is not an atheist but probably some level of Deist without the creationist bent). I don't know. I just don't get it.
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