Okay, YEOW! Hopefully, the RC brigade does not find out your address and show up on your porch. On a lighter note, you are absolutely right about the evolution of the compulsory clerical celibacy...even Peter did not abide this crazy demand. And, really, no man should whether he is a teacher of the Scriptures or a shoe maker. If you want to get married, Paul says get married. But, you have identified an example of the wrongheaded demands Rome has placed on folks. Continue to examine, my FRiend, not only will the global warming argument be disagreeable, but Rome’s view of sacerdotalism, purgatory, sacramentalism, transubstantiation, and several others will likely grind your gears. And, if you are found to be a “protester”, well, so be it. It is fine out here with just Jesus and His Scriptures.
St. Paul, btw, specifically permits a married clergy:
“A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality apt to teach.”
1 Timothy 3:2
The Church certainly did not derive its policy of compulsory clerical celibacy from the Bible. Priests were married men in the Bible and in the early Church for at least 10 centuries. Compulsory clerical celibacy was introduced at the First Lateran Council in 1123 and for reasons which have nothing to do with anything in the Bible.