Perhaps so.
For a priest his LIFE is service to God. For a minister, it would have to be less, even if there were more ministers. A man can't give 100% to both, can he?
Being a minister isn't a 9-5 job. It's a calling.
That's because overseers are called to oversee the flock...And the first requirement is that the overseer have a wife and family; to show that he can run his household well before he is put in charge of overseeing the flock of God...
Even a priest has to eat, sleep, and go to the bathroom.
A man called by God into the ministry is simply that, a man called by God into the ministry.
Show me where either single men or married men are disqualified in Scripture from serving in that capacity and show me where in Scripture marriage precludes giving oneself 100% to God.
Why does the Catholic church put demands on men that God never does?
Seems Catholics have a hard time comprehending the thought that whether we eat, drink or whatever we do, we can do ALL to the glory of God. There's this mentality that the secular and the sacred are somehow separated and that if you're doing one, you can't be doing the other, so being married means a man can't be serving God completely. What a bunch of nonsense.
A married person can be just as able to serve God completely and live a life glorifying Him as a single person. There's no inherent virtue to being single that makes a person ore capable of living for God or glorifying Him that being married.