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To: AnAmericanMother
Homosexuals have always tried to get into the clergy.

They always will, that is what I was describing a church's leadership culutre that will always attract them, they won't be excluded, what they are required to do is to take a vow of celibacy.

18 posted on 02/07/2014 2:27:12 PM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: ansel12
If your supposition were true, predatory homosexuals would not be trying to get into schools, sports teams, scout troops, church youth groups, etc. Those leadership cultures are not male-only - not even the Boy Scouts.

And, as I noted before, the Church leadership is NOT male-only. Parish administrators, teachers, assistants, etc. are frequently (you could say 'usually') female. Chanceries have many females, frequently in leadership positions. In fact, depending on the priest or bishop, the ladies (sometimes quite horrible ladies) may actually be in charge. That is not a good state of affairs, but it is the reality on the ground in a lot of locations.

Anyway, predatory homosexuals could care less about the 'leadership culture'. They care about access to adolescent boys. Like when they asked Willie Sutton why he robbed banks - 'because that's where the money is.'

19 posted on 02/07/2014 3:32:04 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: ansel12
they won't be excluded, what they are required to do is to take a vow of celibacy.

Factually incorrect. I quote:

Pope John XXIII, Jan 23, 1961: "Advancement to religious vows and ordination should be barred to those who are afflicted with evil tendencies to homosexuality or pederasty, since for them the common life and the priestly ministry would constitute serious dangers."

Pope Benedict XVI, Nov 29, 2005: "The church, while deeply respecting the people in question, cannot admit to the seminary and the sacred orders those who practice homosexuality, present deeply rooted homosexual tendencies or support so-called gay culture.
"Those people find themselves, in fact, in a situation that presents a grave obstacle to a correct relationship with men and women. One cannot ignore the negative consequences that can stem from the ordination of people with deeply rooted homosexual tendencies."

20 posted on 02/07/2014 3:38:48 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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