Reply #79: Yes, "the vast majority of rank-and-file who hear the words and do as ordered..."

[TechBear_Seattle]

You seem to have missed the rest of my post, about the members who do not listen but continue to support their leadership anyway.

In the 80s, AIDS groups used the slogan "Silence = Complicity." I think that slogan applies with regards to members of the Catholic Church who remain members yet stay silent when the hierarchy demands that they be bigots.