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The practice of requiring clergy to do something Christ didn't even demand of the apostles, and the first popes didn't even demand of themselves is in my view a red herring.

[A.A. Cunningham]

The choice of practicing the discipline of celibacy is, just as it was when the Apostles made their decision to accept it; which St. Peter mentions in the Gospels of Matthew, Luke and Mark, one made with free will.

Opining on a topic in which you possess deficient knowledge of could be described as a red-herring.