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To: Slyfox
It is not about homosexuals getting married!!! They are saying that the priesthood would attract NEW HETEROSEXUAL CANDIDATES FOR THE PRIESTHOOD. A new pool of men from which to select priests.

Nobody anywhere is implying that homosexuals or pedophiles should get married and stay in the priesthood. Boot 'em out as soon as they are outed.

There may remain a few homosexuals/pedophiles who would enter "cover" marriages, but no one has thought of that one yet. In that scenario, there would be far fewer of them than we have been dealing with thus far.

There are thousands of good men who would make good priests and are good catholics who are married and/or will be married. Get it?

12 posted on 04/05/2002 9:19:12 PM PST by Aliska
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To: Aliska
There are thousands of good men who would make good priests and are good catholics who are married and/or will be married. Get it?

Absolutely right. There are thousands of DEACONS who are serving the Church today, some number of whom might move on to the priesthood. Most of them are married.

There are over 100 married Anglican and Lutheran converts who are priests today, serving the Church well. Full time. Not second class. Good men.

17 posted on 04/05/2002 9:25:34 PM PST by sinkspur
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To: Aliska
It is not about homosexuals getting married!!! They are saying that the priesthood would attract NEW HETEROSEXUAL CANDIDATES FOR THE PRIESTHOOD. A new pool of men from which to select priests.

I know of many heterosexual men who wanted to enter the priesthood and were willing to forgo a wife and kids who could not make it through the seminary because they were deemed TOO conservative. Most of these men then did not pursue becoming a priest. A handful of them either entered a more conservative diocesean seminary or entered a conservative order. The priesthood is not a job that you might find on a job board some where. The priesthood is a dedicated calling which requires the Church to come first, not after the wife and kids, not after soccer, not after deer hunting season.

70 posted on 04/06/2002 12:43:23 PM PST by Slyfox
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