Had nothing to do with it. The Protestants were the first to openly support and push gay “marriage” and gay clergy.
Interesting that the FRoman Catholics say that there are 35,000* brands of Protestants, but somehow we got together in unity and decided to push gay marriage and clergy.
If you wanna talk in extremes, let's discuss Catholic priests molesting children.
And so just because Protestants allegedly did this first, it's logical that Catholicism would follow suit? It's OK because we're not the first to do it.
Is there no evil that the Catholic church can engage in that its parishioners will not defend them of doing?
Someone else did it first.
Someone else did it, too.
There are more of them than us so we're not so bad.
Meanwhile, the Catholic church has not so openly supported gay clergy and pedophile priests throughout the centuries.
Peter Damian's Book of Gomorrah addresses the immorality in the Catholic clergy that existed CENTURIES before the Protestant Reformation.
St. Peter Damian's Book of Gomorrah: Homosexual Situation Graver than Damian's Time
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/929551/posts
So quit blame shifting. Man up and take responsibility for your church's actions.
Catholics love to brag on Catholicism when it's all rainbows and ponies, but when they have moral issues like this, it's always the other guy's fault.
Are you all supposed to be the sheep or the shepherd?
If the RCC takes the moral high ground, as it does, then it needs to BE the example instead of saying *Do as I say, not as I do.*
Over THERE!