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To: bigbob

Nor do I.

I get into arguments about this with my fellow Catholics, but I think the celibacy thing is actually attractive to sexually maladjusted people. Not that there’s anything wrong with being celibate, but for these pervs it gave them the perfect cover they were seeking.


18 posted on 08/14/2018 1:44:32 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog
"I think the celibacy thing is actually attractive to sexually maladjusted people."

I think it's the clothes that priests wear during mass. Gays like to dress up.
36 posted on 08/14/2018 2:12:52 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I'll give you this; everyone starts asking questions when a guy who likes kids gets to be 40+ without getting married.

I was one of those.

I just hadn't met Miss Right, yet.

Well, I had...several times...but in none of those cases was I Mr. Right.

But, I finally found her, and she found me, and we are we, and no one asks why we like kids.

The other way to stop such questions?

Get into a profession where bachelorhood is a professional requirement.

For good or bad reasons.

63 posted on 08/14/2018 2:55:47 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

No, the problem is that they’re not chaste. On the other hand, being married is not necessarily a help if a man is a homosexual or a child molester. I saw that in the Orthodox Church, where most of the priests are married (they have to marry before ordination), but a shocking number of them were gay and there were also child abuse problems, all covered up.

Protestant churches also have this problem, even though their clergy is married, but the target of the press has traditionally been the Catholic Church, so that’s why you don’t read so much about it. But if you look at the statistics, you’ll see.

The big problem - well, actually, there are two big problems - is clericalism on the one hand, and the invasion of all the Christian churches by Freudianism, which made “sexual expression” the be-all and end-all of everything, and told decent Christians that they were being “repressed” unless they did this. All the churches adopted this as their de-facto model after the collapse of the Catholic Church at VII.


64 posted on 08/14/2018 3:01:55 PM PDT by livius
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To: Buckeye McFrog

One should not take vows of celibacy unless he has the gift of celibacy. In that case, no vow needed. Roman Catholic insistence on celibate priests has undoubtedly contributed to the sexual deviance they bury at will.


79 posted on 08/14/2018 3:47:16 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Lock. Her. Up.)
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