Yeah I caught that “affection” thing.
He’s made his own bed.
Neither side likes him now.
As for being gay and a priest, a man who becomes a priest still will have the urges that he can’t act on.
I’m not religious scholar/shrink/etc.. to determine if a gay man could withhold his tendencies for life so better to err on the side of the children.
But I don’t trust that most heterosexual men can live chaste lives as priests and up to 70 percent admit that they don’t.
It wasn’t ALWAYS that priests couldn’t get married.
I should be revisited.
I agree, that aspect of priests being celibate needs to be revisited.