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.
Does anyone know when the celibacy rule went into effect? I actually trace my family tree back to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who was replaced by Sir Thomas More when he couldn't or wouldn't get Henry VIII's first marriage annulled.
Both Wolsey and More were married, though I am not sure More was ever formally ordained into the clergy. Nearly a century later, Cardinal Richelieu was also married and was particularly notorious for spreading his seed around, not a trait that either More or Wolsey shared.
So possibly the celibate clergy thing was a reaction to Richelieu?