Agreed.  Thanks for the follow-up.  Pastors overprotective moves are usually either about love (like a hyper-protective parent) or about control (which is more about the pastor's self-love and self-preservation).  I've seen some of the former (which leads to awkward church life and weird church folk) and more than enough of the latter.  Sometimes it's more loving to ask hard questions of our people and allow them to wrestle with the messy mysteries of Scripture or of social transformation.