[Illbay]

This is simply nonsense.

To you, perhaps, but then you have to justify the church's position.

Within the next couple of decades, when the inability to recruit new priests becomes a crisis, I believe this arbitrary requirement for priestly celibacy--which has caused far more problems than it ever purported to solve--will be gone, and it won't be an issue.

To me, this is such a repudiation of our primary purpose for being put on this earth, that it will be a good thing for your faith when it is finally put to rest.

[Desdemona]

To me, this is such a repudiation of our primary purpose for being put on this earth, that it will be a good thing for your faith when it is finally put to rest.

Don't count your chickens yet. The church has stood for 2,000 years and has weathered much worse than this.

[Aquinasfan]

To you, perhaps, but then you have to justify the church's position.

It's in the Bible.

1 Corinthians 7

I say this as a concession, not as a command. I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that. Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

I thought the LDS accepted the Bible. Was Paul kidding about the value of celibacy? Or is the Book of Mormon regarded as having a higher standing than the Bible?