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To: Pyro7480

I never saw anything in the Bible that said priests should be celibate/single. Because the Catholic Church decided to do something that is unnatural, a lot of the people who chose to become Catholic priests are gay. Changing this rule will do nothing to degrade the standards of the Church, and will bring in some badly needed new blood to the priesthood.


12 posted on 05/29/2009 11:52:14 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: winner3000
Because the Catholic Church decided to do something that is unnatural, a lot of the people who chose to become Catholic priests are gay.

Inaccurate. You're perpetuating a very old urban myth.

13 posted on 05/29/2009 12:03:03 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
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To: winner3000

So do you think that we should lock up everyone over a certain age who isn’t married, because they are committing “unnatural acts?”


25 posted on 05/29/2009 2:06:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: winner3000
I never saw anything in the Bible that said priests should be celibate/single. Because the Catholic Church decided to do something that is unnatural, a lot of the people who chose to become Catholic priests are gay.

Actually, the gays snuck in. There are a few left in the older ranks, but the young guys - no. At least not here. Gays are generally screened out.

Changing this rule will do nothing to degrade the standards of the Church, and will bring in some badly needed new blood to the priesthood.

This keeps coming up, and frankly some of the most liberal dingbats I know would be the first ones to sign up. Talk about Mass by the rubrics going out the window. That would be the first thing to go. One of the most obnoxious priests I've come across is a widower. If that's what we're going to get, I'll take the nice, conservative boys currently in the seminary, thank you.

29 posted on 05/29/2009 8:26:34 PM PDT by Desdemona (Tolerance of grave evil is NOT a Christian virtue. http://www.thekingsmen.us/)
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