I agree, Religious and Sexual Freedoms are not opposed

Michael P., you are right, religious and sexual freedoms are not opposed.  And, it is fitting that you would have so titled your post on this the memorial of Mary Magdelene.  As Fr. Raymond-Leopold Bruckberger, O.P. said:  "There must have emanated from this man, who was the Christ, a light, a power far above nature to free the love of a burning and passionate woman like Mary Magdalene from all obsession, pacify it, order it, and at the same time bring it to full flower."