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"This is like saying being a thief should not disqualify one from the prieshood. Stealing, however should."

NON-SEQUITER ALERT! WOW. HOW SLOW ARE ALL OF YOU FOLKS? NO. Priests, like public school biology teachers, can be either heterosexual or homosexual or nonsexual or pansexual. But if they ACT on those or any other impulses in a way that damage other people they are not priests, they are predators. Just like junior high-school soccer coaches who diddle their students. Got it?

You don't get it.
A priest is supposed to a representative of God, who has a position of authority in the Church.
This in not like being a "junior high-school soccer coach" or anything else.

Secondly your throwing "heterosexual or homosexual or nonsexual or pansexual" all together in one group assumes a moral equivalency that doesn't exist. At least nowhere in Biblical teaching.

God created heterosexuality, it reflects his natural design for human sexuality.
Homosexuality however is always defined as a sinful perversion of God's created intent, everywhere it is mentioned in the Bible it is called sin, and nowhere is it ever condoned by God.

So the idea that a priest in the church should even define themself as homosexual, celibate or not, defies the Church's teachings.

"So the idea that a priest in the church should even define themself as homosexual, celibate or not, defies the Church's teachings". OF COURSE THAT'S TRUE. Nor should a priest define themselves as heterosexual or pansexual or any-which-way-sexual. But people are born certain ways: heterosexual, homosexual, non-sexual, pan-sexual, whaterverwhichwaysexual. That's a FACT. That's how God ordered the world, whether or not you care for that reality.But if somebody's gonna be a priest and take the vow of, yes, CHASTITY, they have an obligation to kiss all that BYE-BYE, no matter WHAT gets their friggin' you-know-whats-off. (By the way, doctrinally, the RC church accepts homosexuality as a biologically natural orientation, but doesn't accept homosexual sex.Although I am heterosexual, I haven't quite figured out the philosophical consistency of this one)Look, I am as ANGRY as anyone else about the freaknut gay guys who have taken over the Roman Catholic Church. But the evil isn't in their gayness (there are many great born-gay priests who don't rape their young parishoners). The evil is in all these other bogus priests' predatory false-catholocism. You can't blame this on all gays any more than you can blame male on female rape on all heterosexual guys, OK?