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To: history_matters
Excellent article.

At one point I believed it to be the natural choice for a gay man who was serious about his Catholicism to become a priest - he could both serve the Church, and not commit acts that go against the Bible's teachings.

For obvious reasons, I no longer feel that way (Disclaimer - I'm not Catholic).

31 posted on 05/03/2002 7:34:19 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: Senator Pardek
(Disclaimer - I'm not Catholic).

Tell it to the Holy Spirit who left his seal on you.

34 posted on 05/03/2002 7:38:48 PM PDT by Askel5
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To: Senator Pardek
At one point I believed it to be the natural choice for a gay man who was serious about his Catholicism to become a priest

But don't you see? This says so much more about you and your view of sexuality than your understanding of the priesthood and the mystery of vocation. You are never going to understand Catholicism till you abandon this Career Counselor's view of the priesthood, as something chosen pragmatically, to fit the man to the job -- in this case, the idea that the priesthood belongs to men who're asexual or sexually dysfunctional.

You have a view of the priesthood as a class of men that's fundamentally aberrant. You have a view of the priesthood as the refuge of men who're intrinsically disordered, inadequate, or somehow lacking -- not necessarily in a viscious way, but nevetheless pitiful, incomplete, and unmanly.

As a celibate man no doubt I take too strong a personal interest in the subject, but to maintain that men are fundamentally (no pun) classified according to a taxonomy of sex -- that the only meaningful measure of a man is taken horizontally -- is to degrade him to the objectified status of anonymous Australian (or was it Phillipine?) comfort girls cheering the arrival of the fleet.

65 posted on 05/03/2002 8:17:37 PM PDT by Romulus
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