Source: The John Jay Report
It’s not that celebacy CAUSES abuse. It’s that the celebacy requirement causes men with normal sex lives to shy away from the priesthood, and that means there is a higher percentage of men with abnormal sex lives in the priesthood. It’s a selection issue, not a causal issue.
Legalize prostitution! Let the ugly and shy get laid too!
“Normal sex lives,” for Christians, means that unmarried people are abstinent and married people are faithful.
It is entirely possible to live without sex, happily. Not for everyone, obviously, but many people can do it. Some people have less strong sex urges, and also time tames it as well. Some people are called to vocations which require celibacy, both in Catholicism and other religions.
To be fully human means to be able to control the urges of the body and mind when they urge one to act against moral principles.
Everyone has thought of stealing, or commiting violence (even just thinking about punching some one occasionally), lying, etc. But a moral person knows that such actions are morally wrong and rejects those thoughts. A civilized human society expects its members to use that self-control in sex as well. The fact that it is now a cultural standard that everyone must have sex as soon as they are physically able to and to try to stop this in oneself, or teach it to others, is wrong and impossible, is leading to the destruction of western civilization.
Why? Many reasons. One very easy to understand reason is that children do get conceived, and then they have to be killed, or raised by single mothers, with or without a succesion of “boyfriends”. The rate of illegitimacy is now (last figure I saw) about 40% in the US. In the UK it’s more than 50%. Then there are all the marriages detroyed because of infidelity.
What happens to these children from what used to be called broken homes? (The ones that manage to run the gauntlet and don’t get killed before birth.) THe rates of crime and misery are growing; it is proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that children raised without a stable home life with a mother and father married to each other suffer terribly. Huge numbers of broken lives result in broken civilization.
The most probable pedophiles in order are:
Fathers
Teachers
Coaches
Protestant ministers
Priests are way down on the list.
So if a father is a teacher of mid-high history, coaches the girl’s basketball team and is a youth minister at his church on weekends/Sundays — watch out! He would be much more prone to pedophilia that any priest.
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