My grandfather was the only maritally chaste minister his Southern Baptist Church had during the 20 years from 1980 to 2000. All the rest of them had to be run out of town for participating in horizontal counseling of the forlorn ladies of the parish on the Pastor's office couch. From reading the newspapers down south of these sorts of goings on, and also noting the enormous number of divorces, remarriages and affairs reported among southern evangelicals, his parish was not atypical at all.
Baptist preacher’s kid, here. We don’t have parishes — and I only remember a few rumors or confirmations about preachers who were adulterers.
I’ve never understood why anyone would choose to ignore the qualifications for church leaders in Timothy and Titus and the examples of married Peter, unmarried Paul, and councils like that one in Jerusalem.
And we’re taught that we’re all saints, all members of the priesthood, not to call any man “Father,” that we may each approach the throne, there is only one mediator between us and the Father, and that no man (or woman) can modify the Bible to come up with new rules - there are no single leaders like the popes, etc.
Welcome to FR Heliand.
It seems to me that the sexual problem in the RCC is one of same sex activity between adult priests and post pubescent boys. The issue you note with heterosexual sex among adults is not really a moral equivalent. Both are wrong, both are sinful but in the latter it is activity between two consenting adults. The former is abuse of a minor by an adult.