Does Celibacy Contribute to Clerical Sex Abuse?

Thanks for displaying your ignorance of Scripture, yet again.

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Richard Sipe is an academic opportunist. He’s strongly associated with that ACLU operative Jeff Anderson the Zen Lutheran.

You wrote: Heavens no. if celibacy were the issue, then you'd be seeing vast numbers of priests just leaving the priesthood to marry or having consensual affairs with grown women.

Celibacy is the issue for exactly that which you indicated actually happened. The result - once the heterosexual priests left - a gay clergy resulted as the seminaries accepted anyone. Celibacy is the issue for a shortage of heterosexual priests - not the issue for abuse - except that with the absence of heterosexuals, the gay culture dominated.

You wrote: Heavens no. if celibacy were the issue, then you'd be seeing vast numbers of priests just leaving the priesthood to marry or having consensual affairs with grown women.

Celibacy is the issue for exactly that which you indicated actually happened. The result - once the heterosexual priests left - a gay clergy resulted as the seminaries accepted anyone. Celibacy is the issue for a shortage of heterosexual priests - not the issue for abuse - except that with the absence of heterosexuals, the gay culture dominated.

Explain the presence of the "Naughty Teacher Ping List" if it is caused by celibacy.

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