[SnakeDoctor]

Marriage is not a guarantee of non-homosexuality (attraction to women can be faked) ... but it is a better safeguard than is celibacy (wherein attraction to women need not even be faked).

SnakeDoc

[hellbender]

I'm sure you're right, statistically. There's also the fact that there is no Biblical basis for a celibate clergy. Some think the Catholic Church adopted it to compete with (or under the influence of) the Cathars, a medieval heretic sect whose elite (the Perfecti) were celibate.

Incidentally, most Protestant missionaries in the 19th cent. were required to be married. Churches did not want to send single young men among "natives" (many scantily clad), knowing that disgrace to their cause would likely result.