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To: NormB; conserv13
Let's have a rational discussion on homosexuality in the Church!

Don't hold your breath. Among other things, that would require:

1) The massive number of gay priests to ask themselves honestly why the heck they want to serve in the priesthood of a church which explicitly condemns them, and

2) The Church to confront the fact that no normal heterosexual male wants to sign up for a life of celibacy, and that its choices are a) maintain the status quo and just look the other way, b) continue to require celibacy but crack down harshly on gay priests, and just suck it up as the already critically short supply of priests rapidly gets at least 25% shorter, while Catholics (and everybody else) remark on the huge exodus and the stark evidence it provides of the large percentage of the priesthood which is gay, or c) refute the pronouncements of a long string of Popes who have declared that celibacy is and always will be essential for priests, and start allowing priests to marry.

25 posted on 09/30/2005 11:43:47 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker
I think they should let priests get married. Even gay priests.

I'm not a real good Catholic : )

39 posted on 09/30/2005 11:52:49 AM PDT by conserv13
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To: GovernmentShrinker
The Church to confront the fact that no normal heterosexual male wants to sign up for a life of celibacy

Well there's a nice slap in the face to the thousands of men who are serving as priests, faithfully, as we speak.

As for your comment that there are MASSIVE numbers of homosexual priests, where is your proof? I've seen some statistics bandied about on this thread, but as Mark Twain once said, "There's lies, there's DAMN lies, and then there's STATISTICS.

148 posted on 09/30/2005 5:36:48 PM PDT by SuziQ
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