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In 1 Timothy 3:1-7 then, Paul is simply speaking of married candidates for the priesthood. Married men seeking to become priests must be the husband of one wife, in other words, not twice married.

That's not what Paul said...Surely you can read, can't you???

Your statement illustrates the problem with the private interpretation of Scripture.

You are the one inserting private interpretation...

St. Paul commends celibacy over marriage. Why would he demand that all priests be married?

Does that make sense to you?

Who cares whether you think it makes sense or not...And of course it makes sense...God never gave you the authority to judge what he says...

1Ti 3:5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

That's why Paul demands clergy be married with kids, AND

1Ti 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

How do you guys pervert the words of God and keep a clean conscience???

We know that Paul was a bishop because he speaks of laying hands on Timothy, which is the role of a bishop.

That's just goofy...Paul did the same things nuns do...Was Paul a nun as well???

This prohibition is part of Church law today in Catholic Rites where priests are allowed to marry, AFAIK, even if the first wife died.

1Ti 4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

That's your religion right there...Spelled right out in the scriptures...

And you know what God says about your religion that forbids it's clergy from taking a wife???

1Ti 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;,

You are teaching the doctrines of devils...