Married Priests solves NOTHING.
They don’t “become gay” due to lack of access to women!
Would you be happier with;
-dating priests,
-philandering priests,
-divorced priests?
No one claims that the Church’s policy of compulsory clerical celibacy causes homosexuality or pedophilia.
The Church instituted the policy in the Middle Ages largely to confront corruption in the clergy, specifically nepotism and simony.
The Church could not have known, centuries later, that by creating an all male institution where relations with the opposite sex were expressly prohibited, that they would have ended up creating an atmosphere very appealing and attractive to homosexuals and a very large homosexual subculture within the Church which exists to this day.
Come on. The Anglicans and Episcopalians and various mainline Protestant groups where married clergy has been the norm for centuries don’t have any gays in leadership and certainly don’t accept things like ‘gay marriage.’ All the married clergy make it very hard for the gays to infiltrate them and be welcome, for sure. Obviously.
And the liberal homo-acts affirming Catholic contingent is certainly pro-celibacy discipline. They are always hollering about how valuable it is and how it should continue. For sure.
Freegards