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To: wideawake
Both homosexuals and pedophiles believe that sex is primarily for pleasure and that procreation is irrelevant. Unfortunately, this is also the commonality that many priests seem to have with both groups, which is why you see the high correlation of these behaviors in the priesthood. This is what leads many to believe that the celibate priesthood is a disasater in the making.
18 posted on 04/09/2002 11:03:07 AM PDT by Cu Roi
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To: Cu Roi
If a celibate clergy is a "disaster in the making" it took about nineteen centuries to become a disaster.

Homosexuals and homosexual pedophiles enter the Protestant ministry and the rabbinate as well. They take jobs as coaches, daycare workers, teachers, even ride operators at Disneyworld.

They will do anything to get near children. Many, many homosexuals and homosexual pedophiles are married.

Your argument seems to be that if priests are allowed to marry, then pedophiles will no longer be attracted to the priesthood. Wrong. As long as priests have access to children then homosexuals and homosexual pedophiles will try to sneak into the priesthood.

Before 1963, these problems were almost unheard of. There is a good reason for this. In those days, authority for selection of candidates was given to vocation masters who were themselves priests. They would evaluate candidates and reject anyone whom they thought was "funny".

This process was eliminated by liberals after 1963. Now evaluation is left to a secular psychologist instead of novice masters. The American Psychological Association has promoted sodomy and sexual license for decades and has lately gotten into the business of justifying pedophilia.

It is no wonder that so many APA-approved priests have such serious moral defects.

In short - Freud is wrong, not St. Paul.

20 posted on 04/09/2002 11:26:29 AM PDT by wideawake
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