[Publius6961]

They're paying John Jay Criminal College $1,000,000 in three installments to tell them that they ordained homosexual priests?

I try very hard to avoid these threads, since the answer is obvious, and the irrational ones come out in droves, on both sides of the issue: both gays and anti-gays.

I can't resist, however, commenting on the tone and logic of the posts already made which suggest that voluntary celibacy turns an otherwise healthy heterosexual male not only into a homosexual, but also into a child abuser.

Rubbish.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I agree with that. It has nothing to do with the vow of celibacy.

If one chooses to break that vow it would be with the person to whom they have an original attraction.

[ichabod1]

I can't resist, however, commenting on the tone and logic of the posts already made which suggest that voluntary celibacy turns an otherwise healthy heterosexual male not only into a homosexual, but also into a child abuser.

I can see how a homosexual, wracked by guilt, might join the priesthood with the intention of forswearing sex for the rest of his life as penance, only to give in later when tempted by adolescent pulchritude.

That's where the church is supposed to be vigilant. Many are called but few are chosen -- I believe that phrase was coined for just this situation.