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Most people who live chaste lives live them because they do not have a great desire to have sex with others in the first place. Many are not priests either, it’s just the kind of person they are. And there are several main reasons for it.

This is why we see the problems of forcing people with a normal libido into an unnatural permanent state of celibacy, and they look for an outlet of that desire and energy they have to suppress.

There is no biblical reason for leaders in the Christian church to not be married. Paul says he wishes more could be, but that is not a command you must be. The only place where this is required to be a leader is the Roman Catholic denomination. And they haven’t done themselves any favors by reducing excellent candidates out of potential great ministerial positions because they are honest that they can’t be celibate. So you get the pedophiles, the rapists, and the gays, or any hodgepodge of the above, in positions of authority over others, attempting to lecture them about morals while they and their archbishops do everything they can to cloak their own sins from the congregations.

And yes you can find married pastors and such that are into perversion, it’s not exclusive to the Roman church and we’ve never said that only they have the problem. But what you can’t find are churches who once discovered, won’t get rid of them, won’t shuffle them off to another unsuspecting church in their area. They get fired, they get prosecuted. The congregations get rid of them, they have the power to do so. Not so in the Roman Catholic churches. The Roman church because of its structure has systemically hid this from people, denied it was occurring, settled agreements only under vows of silence that those affected couldn’t mention it to anyone, moved people around they knew had problems and did not warn the parishes these problem priests were coming to. It’s the coverup and denial there even were problems being covered up.

We expect this kind of behavior from secular society, from worldly people, the unsaved, those still under control of the ruler of this world. What we don’t expect is this behavior from people in the church. Running the church. In positions of authority over others. That’s what makes it worse. At the same time condemning others for their little failings. That’s the problem.