What attracts gay men to the Catholic priesthood?

The Boston Globe ^ | May 3, 2002 | Mark D. Jordan

[eastsider]

One can only imagine what goes on during the "Kiss of Peace" at these Masses ...

[vmatt]

Is it fair to say that you object to mandatory clerical celibacy, not celibacy per se?

Of course.

[vmatt]

Now how about posting those passages in Scripture where celibacy is praised by both Christ and Paul? That won't happen because you know it blows your argument out of the water.

Celibacy is never taught by Christ or Paul as an obligation or requirement and remember Paul also gave a very timely warning regarding this subject Christians would do well to heed, "better to marry than to burn".

[maryz]

And I might add, the article is not written by a member of the clergy, but a member of the homosexual community.

. . . who is a professor of religion! Looks like Emory University got a two-fer: they have a homsexual and they can claim they have a "Catholic."

I did a quick Google search on the author -- looks like he's a one-trick pony, taking his turn after that one who claimed in a book a couple of years ago that the medieval church sanctioned same-sex unions, and the numerous claims ("scholarly" and dramatic) that Christ himself was . . . well, I don't even want to finish that sentence in print.

[ppaul]

[Jeff Chandler]

The teenaged boys are victims because they are minors.

Also because men who are attracted to men have never matured emotionally or psychosexually (which is why they shouldn't be ordained). They never made that transition from identifying with the mother to identifying with the father, therefore they are particularly attracted to those boys who are of an age at which they themselves last felt comfortable and secure. This strong attraction to boys is known in the "gay" community, just scan their publications.

These non-celibate priests probably had an order of magnitude more adult male sexual partners, many of them fellow priests.

Possibly, possibly not.

It will be interesting to see if Shanley blows the lid off of the can of worms in an effort to make a deal with the DA.

If there is a lid to be blown, and there very well could be, I hope he does. Turn the rock over and shine the light on what's been hidden.

[history_matters]

Mark Jordan is a well known homosexual activitist. As a scholar I believe his words need to be taken with a grain of salt or perhaps held away at arm's length.

[Theresa]

"This paragraph is illustrative how of Lust leads to disordered thinking and a darkened intellect."

Yep. That was my impression too.