And yet you encourage those in authority to reject marriage for themselves. Your denomination’s doctrines are confused; why else would it deny marriage for your leaders? Jesus’ friend Peter was married.
Because Jesus and St. Paul encouraged it?
"For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others--and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it." -Jesus
"To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain single as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion" --St. Paul
You make several misleading or mistaken points in your statement: “And yet you encourage those in authority to reject marriage for themselves. Your denomination’s doctrines are confused; why else would it deny marriage for your leaders? Jesus’ friend Peter was married.”
Mistake: “Your denomination’s doctrines are confused;”
Reality: None of this is doctrine. It is a discipline. You apparently aren’t even aware of that.
misleading: “why else would it deny marriage for your leaders?”
Why wouldn’t the Church insist on celibacy for bishops when that was universally done since the early centuries of the Church?
Misleading: “Jesus’ friend Peter was married.”
At one time. We know about his mother-in-law. There is no evidence his wife was still alive at that point. She might have been, but it is irrelevant. Jesus and Paul were unmarried. Later the Church had - universally - no married bishops whatsoever.