[TomOnTheRun]

There is something to this but it goes beyond leftist, MSM, etc. It’s just about everywhere. Even many Catholics treated me as a sort of freak because, as a monk, I pursued a life of chastity. I got the impression that, for many of them, it was harder for them to personally understand and identify with chastity than it was to understand homosexuality. Gay men at least had sex lives and I seemed to refuse to have even that much in common with them. Over sexualization is everywhere.

[GunRunner]

Chastity at certain points in one’s life is understandable and often commendable. But indeed, lifelong chastity commitments made early in one’s life are quire hard (impossible in fact) for me and many others to understand.

[Balt]

Even many Catholics treated me as a sort of freak because, as a monk, I pursued a life of chastity.

Tell me about it, Tom. When I was teaching high school some years ago, one of my students was genuinely surprised when I told him that we didn't accept homosexuals into the seminary. He actually thought that celibacy required that you didn't like girls to be accepted. No joke.

[Jeff Chandler]

Even many Catholics treated me as a sort of freak because, as a monk, I pursued a life of chastity.

I can definitely see many advantages to that choice of life. On the negative, you forgo having a wife and children. On the positive, you forgo having a wife and children.