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.*
We should all be on our knees asking God for forgiveness and then for new grace to live a life full of His spirit, which life will display more and more right things, and fewer and fewer wrong things.
I’m not surprised to see big mainlines get corrupted first... and it’s for the same reason that the big Roman church has. The big mainlines thought that in an institution lay bulletproofing. “Little” evangelical/Protestant churches such as Baptist, and indie versions of Lutheran, Methodist, etc. tend to see a smaller frequency of such corruptions. They have to be serious about the Lord or else they go extinct.
I'd have to study it further; but IMHO I've come to believe that the homosexualist undercurrent may be one of the instrumental reasons for the RC tradition of unmarried priests, which only came around 800 years after the Apostles, several of whom were married. That is not to say that there haven't been literally millions of celebate priests over the centuries who were faithful to the spirit of the stricture and to the Word of God -- surely the majority. But the policy decision may have been "helped" along by a powerful subculture in the ancient church. As we see now in the halls of power, once the homosexual hysteria bursts out into the open and demands accommodation, nothing else is sacred.