Doesn’t matter how common it was; it was a condemned abuse. You know that.
If you want to be a protestant, be a protestant. Stop sowing confusion.
I’m not sowing confusion. I’m stating the facts. Compulsory clerical celibacy was not implemented until well into the Middle Ages and for reasons unrelated to anything which can be found in the Bible. Orthodox priests are permitted to marry, so are Catholic priests in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Would you call them protestants too?