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To: Dagnabitt

“The RC church is a few centuries behind with its “celibate” clergy thing. Ending that outdated requirement and allowing normal married men into its ranks would go a long way toward ending its intractable pederasty problem.”

Totally agree. Maybe some heterosexual married men can temper their homosexual practices.


46 posted on 08/14/2018 2:26:38 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!)
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To: CodeToad

The enormous exodus of heterosexual men who left the priesthood to marry in the 1960s and 1970s created an imbalance.


50 posted on 08/14/2018 2:29:31 PM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: CodeToad
Totally agree. Maybe some heterosexual married men can temper their homosexual practices.

Which, when you think about it, is another reason why they will fight changing the Celibacy rule. It would be the beginning of the end of the Party.
51 posted on 08/14/2018 2:30:21 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: CodeToad

It didn’t help the Episcopalians or Anglicans, they had married clergy for centuries and now put openly married gay clergy in as bishops. But I hear you. What I don’t understand is that the most pro-homosexual agenda Catholics invariably want the discipline of celibacy ended.

Freegards


53 posted on 08/14/2018 2:38:23 PM PDT by Ransomed
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