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2018-08-21 Home Front: Culture Wars
Why Homosexuals Should Not Be Priests … From A Same-Sex Attracted Man
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Posted by Besoeker 2018-08-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top

#1 I thought they are supposed to be celibate?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-08-21 02:21||   2018-08-21 02:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Celibacy needs to be dropped. As I understand it as much religous reasons part of the reason for it's institution was to prevent positions in the church from being handed down in the family
Posted by Cheaderhead 2018-08-21 06:37||   2018-08-21 06:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Celibacy? If they're interested in little boys, marrying ain't going to solve the problem.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-08-21 08:12||   2018-08-21 08:12|| Front Page Top

#4 What one would call an enabling environment.
Posted by JohnQC 2018-08-21 10:21||   2018-08-21 10:21|| Front Page Top

#5 The Catholic Church could have saved itself a helluva lotta trouble by adopting the Boy Scouts rule that adult troop leaders are never to be alone with a child. Two or more children are OK. One child is not. It's pretty simple and there's really no excuse for doing it any other way. If you're never alone with a kid there can be no question of impropriety. If you are caught alone with a kid you lose your position. You don't get transferred, you get fired.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-08-21 11:56||   2018-08-21 11:56|| Front Page Top

#6 I won't even totally close my office door when meeting with a female subordinate. Sad that it's gotten that way
Posted by Frank G 2018-08-21 12:26||   2018-08-21 12:26|| Front Page Top

#7 I know a guy who finally admitted he was gay then shortly thereafter started down the road to becoming a priest, maybe going to escape his sexuality. Of course, often there will be a resurgence later. And he would be trapped in the priesthood with a bunch of choir boys and other kids with problems who don't know right from wrong . . . .
Posted by gorb 2018-08-21 12:33||   2018-08-21 12:33|| Front Page Top

#8  Totally ignored in this discussion so far is that there is a branch of the Roman Catholic church (Byzantine Rite) which allows priests to be married. It would be interesting to investigate how much of a problem aberrant sexual behavior has been in that part of the Church. My guess would be, very very little.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-08-21 13:02||   2018-08-21 13:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Rotten from history. It was Pope Leo X that got his rocks off to young boys leaping naked from cakes.
Posted by Woodrow 2018-08-21 13:04||   2018-08-21 13:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Hasn't anyone even thought about refering to scripture? Of course not.
Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-08-21 19:00||   2018-08-21 19:00|| Front Page Top

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