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.
It's in the Bible.
1 Corinthians 7I 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?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.