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To: DCPatriot
Well, if celibacy wasn't a requirement for priesthood, it wouldn't be such a magnet for homosexuals and pedophiles.

Yeah, because homosexuals and pedophiles are naturally drawn to celibacy....

LOL

54 posted on 11/16/2006 10:26:45 AM PST by Petronski (BRABANTIO: Thou art a villain. IAGO: You are--a senator. ---Othello I.i.)
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To: Petronski
Yeah, because homosexuals and pedophiles are naturally drawn to celibacy....

The outward expected behavior of Catholic priests provides a very good cover for someone who would like to conceal homosexuality and the position provides access to susceptible victims, over whom the priest has authority and deep knowledge of that victim's inner struggles. It is these aspects that attract the perverts; not the celibacy, but the presumption of celibacy that priests have.

N.B. I believe the vast majority of Catholic priests are not of this kind. I also believe that their kind are overrepresented in the Catholic priesthood vs the overall population, mainly because of tolerance and abetting of the behavior by superiors. Cardinal Mahoney et. al. should be in prison for criminal conspiracy and accessory after the fact.

105 posted on 11/16/2006 11:24:34 AM PST by LexBaird (98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
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To: Petronski
Yeah, because homosexuals and pedophiles are naturally drawn to celibacy....

Too much!

218 posted on 11/16/2006 12:51:18 PM PST by jdm
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To: Petronski; All
I meant that since Catholic priests are not allowed to marry or have male-female relationships, fewer 'straight' men are drawn to the clergy.

When the pool of candidates is so small, the void is filled with men with abnormal sexual habits.

Perhaps, if priest were allowed to have a wife or girlfriend they wouldn't have such a 'problem'.

260 posted on 11/16/2006 2:24:39 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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