[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

re: straw-man arguments.

Tell that to the liberals making them. There can be theological discussions and debates about celibacy. Linking that to homosexual teenophilia cases, as libs and media journalists have done (rather than address homosexuality), implies that they think there is a connection. The idea that the Catholic priesthood causes a normal person to become a homosexual teenophile is absurd. If the men in question are normal and attractive, they would have no trouble finding agreeable females or prostitutes. But that's not what is being reported.

[eastsider]

I concur that the causal arguments connecting celibacy with perversion are absurdly naive and that they should be promptly defeated, although not at the expense of what IMO are the legitimate conditional arguments. My apologies for having misconstrued your post.

P.S. I spewed my tea when I read "teenophilia." LOL! : )