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He said he was treated very badly by the Church, assurances having been given previously. He married a nun of his acquaintance, and they remained married even though he had to give up his faculties and she had to leave her order

I'm not Catholic, so take it for what it's worth-but the horror bishops felt about the men who married dwarfed the horror over the child molesters.

I know a priest who anounced his intention to marry in the morning and was out of his house that night-the only place he had to live.

There appeared to be a visceral revulsion about these men (who were doing a very normal thing, albeit breaking a promise) that just did not exist with regard to the molesters.

To me, this bespeaks an imbalance in the appreciation of the human sexual faculty, which undervalues marriage (the epitome of heterosexual natural design) and overvalues disdain for marriage-which may have many roots, but one of which is, obviously, homosexuality.

I think it would have been prudent to allow marriage back then, and I think it would be prudent today.

The other possibility is that this outrage over priests getting married comes from homosexual priests who are threatened by the idea of having heterosexual married priests -- their natural enemy, if you will -- in their midst.

Just a speculation, but it may be that the gay underground may be a lot bigger and more muscular than we've given it credit for, and it may constitute an authentic cabal against the rest of society in some "close shops".

I don't claim to know all the equities, but the selective indignation of the bishops is suspicious-sounding to me.