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"No matter how decisively His Holiness John Paul II spells out the requirement for the clergy to remain celibate, proponents keep bringing it up."

This guy seems to be quite ignorant of the fact that the Catholic Church already has a married clergy.

Do you guys not consider deacons to be clergy in the US?

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Do you guys not consider deacons to be clergy in the US?

We do, and we consider Eastern Rite priests to be clergy (though I don't think the "suspension" of married Eastern Rite priests in the US was lifted until this year), and we consider married Anglican dispensation priests clergy.