I have no problem with a Roman Catholic Priest who decides the calling he once accepted is after all not the calling he can honestly commit to, and in good faith, 1st resign and, afterward, seek a relationship he believes is honest and right for his life.
For me, it is not a matter of the historical rights or wrongs of the unmarried priesthood or the vows of celibacy.
It is the priest who has come to a “change”, and the honest course at this time is to leave the Roman Catholic priesthood, not demand the terms of Catholic priesthood be changed, to accommodate the “life style” he wants. This point is not a defense of or argument against the commitments that the Roman Catholic Church makes on its priests, but it is a point about this priests own lack of integrity going against his own vows, instead of leaving the priesthood beforehand on honest terms.
And besides, from the priest’s own comments, I am not sure how much of a committed Catholic he is, in that he seems to think it would be O.K. for him to serve as a priest in a denomination that does not have the same commitments as the Roman Catholic Church.
Priests who have been consecretated under the novus ordo rubics are probably not valid.