About that known homosexual priests thing......
Homosexuality and Roman Catholic priests
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_Roman_Catholic_priests
And foreseeing the denouncement of the source, the wiki article provides a plethora of sources at the end of the article for further confirmation.
Vatican Won’t Ban Gay Priests
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/10/07/vatican-wont-ban-gay-priests/
And then there’s the current pope’s latest ramblings.
All in all, there are homosexual Catholic priests which the Catholic church still accepts as ordained practicing priests. No Catholic is in any position to throw any stones at any other denomination for having homosexual clergy.
Not every non-Catholic church ordains gay clergy as some liberal denominations so so broad brushing non-Catholics as doing so is not accurate.
However, I have also noted that in general, when a member of the clergy is found to be in sexual sin of any kind, it usually results in having their credentials revoked, something the Catholic church does not do.
The only sodomite priests are the ones that are found out after they have been ordained. Then, like any other priest they are expected to remain celibate. If they can’t, just like any other priest, they are not allowed to remain in the priesthood. The Catholic Church will not allow in the priesthood any man that says he is a homosexual. The question is asked “do you have any homosexual tendencies”. Some answer no. If they answer yes they are not allowed in the priesthood. In otherwords they lie their way into the priesthood.
This is 190 degrees the opposite of the Episcopalian Church that openly accepts homosexuals AND lesbian women into the clergy and makes no distinction at all with their perverted lifestyle. This is the reason that thousands of episcopalian converted flock to the Catholic Church each year. This is also the same reason that the Angelican Church in England is about dead. Their liberal stance on women ordaination, women clergy and homosexual clergy. Like the American arm of the Angelican Church, the Episcopalians will also “marry” sodomites.
“However, I have also noted that in general, when a member of the clergy is found to be in sexual sin of any kind, it usually results in having their credentials revoked, something the Catholic church does not do”.
You seem to be forgetting about Jimmy Swaggart who got on national TV and started crying when it was found out he had been running around with prostitutes. Last time I looked the Jimmy Swaggart ministries are alive and well and doing good.
Or how about Ted Haggard, the protestant preacher that had thousands and thousands of followers in the Denver area. He was found out to be snorting crack and having homosexual sex with his boyfriends, but last time I checked he was still preaching.
And let’s not forget Eddie Lee Long,the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in Georgia. Accused of sodomite sex with countless young male members of his parish. When the story broke pastor Eddie told them all to go to hell and kept on preaching.