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To: anniegetyourgun
I think that a large part of the reason so many homosexual pedos are attracted to the priesthood is precisely because of the celibacy requirement. I'm sure that, in most cases, they are committed Catholics who wish to live by the catechism, but are nevertheless urged to molest children due to their condition. They probably see the priesthood as a place of shelter precisely because it insists that all sexual desire be repressed. Unfortunately, however, when they succumb to their urges, the molestations occur. I'm sure there are plenty of priests who also succumb to sexual temptation of the normal, legal heterosexual variety. We just don't hear about those cases, of course, because no laws are broken.

But biblically, celibacy is not a requirement for pastors. Even Paul admitted that there are those who can handle it, and those who can't. Sexual urge, in many people, is as powerful as hunger.

13 posted on 03/15/2002 12:24:50 PM PST by helmsman
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To: helmsman
In addition to your thoughts, lately it has occurred to me that maybe overzealous raising of boy children and teaching them that sex is bad . . . has resulted in adults with arrested sexual development.

Then again, that may not be the case as men used to be brought up to be gentlemen and some waited long years to marry nice girls who often were virgins . . . and we didn't have a society full of pedophiles. There were probably always some, but it seems to be epidemic now . . . so there must be something else going on here.

48 posted on 03/15/2002 3:33:38 PM PST by Aliska
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