[pnh102]

Clearly this very question is a direct attack on the celibacy rules for clergy in the Catholic Church. Why can’t people accept that rules are rules, and if you want to be a married priest, there are other ways to go about doing it (even within the Catholic Church!) without whining about the rules imposed by the Catholic Church.

[a fool in paradise]

It's the sex positive agenda (which sees sexual pleasure as a birthright to be enjoyed by everyone at every age with no moral judgements regardless of the pairing) that drives this discussion. The proponents are decidedly anti-abstinence, not because it doesn't work (regardless of what they claim) but because they find it to be psychologically counter to their own hedonistic worldview.

This agenda is pushed globally by government institutions, schools, and radical feminists and socialists. And it is damaging to psychological wellbeing and society's stability.

Good to see someone picking up the counter argument.

[matginzac]

Couldn’t agree more - it’s ALL about self-sacrifice, devotion to others, serving God through selflessness, etc - but OHHHH, in this pro-secular, “how can you give up SEX !?!” society, it’s implausible that ANYONE would deny themselves sexual pleasure...just doesn’t compute...myopic dopes!