[Polycarp]

If you believe the folks on TV, celibacy was something "imposed on the priesthood" during the Middle Ages to keep the children of clerics from inheriting Church property. If I had a dime for every time I've heard this....

...on FR, I'd be rich...

[buffyt]

It was 1138 when Celibacy was imposed on the priesthood. They have a much higher incidence of pastor raping little helpless boys than do other denominations. If they had healthy normal heterosexual married priests, the child rape problem would have never ocurred. Not that the priests would be perfect, but they wouldn't be gays who rape little tiny boys, and then let the little boys grow up to be suicidal. If a priest marries, he is defrocked. If he rapes little tiny helpless boys, he is transferred.