I grew up as a Catholic. My family is still Catholic. However, they need to let married men be priests, and for priests to get married. I had a friend who was at one of the top seminaries in Italy. Homosexuality was rampant.
I'd rather deal with a priest who has marital problems than one who is a sick hypocritical queer or child molester.
I'm really sorry if I've offended, but this topic sets me off.
I hear you. Come to think of it, one of the questions the priest asked me during the pre-marital councilling I alluded to earlier was "Have you ever had any homosexual thoughts." I'm not kidding; he really did. Of course I told him "none of your damn business", and things kinda went downhill after that, and after I got a kick in the shins from my betrothed under the table, but we wound up getting married in the Catholic church by a Deacon and the minister from my Methodist church. That's right, the priest allowed a bi-denominational service!
The kicker to all of this is that this priest later fell in love with a woman in the church. He resigned from the priesthood in order to marry her, something which I hugely respected.....