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To: bigsigh
Just as the posted article urges, homosexuals should not be priests. They should not be admitted to seminaries and they should be ousted from the priesthood if discovered as active homosexuals.
This is not the US DOD and a don't ask, don't tell policy. This is the Catholic Church which teaches that priests are to be celibate for life. As Fr. Fessio SJ has written, The motivation for celibacy was the closer following of Jesus Christ, who required his apostles to leave wife and family, to become “eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom”. I suppose that is what you have stated in you post, that you think of priests as "asexual."
To me it is quite simple and straight forward: Priests who violate their solemn vows to God by engaging in sex (hetero or homo) should be banned from the priesthood.
47 posted on 03/13/2005 2:18:39 PM PST by vox_freedom (Fear no evil)
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To: vox_freedom
The only area where we disagree is that I base it on behavior not orientation. It has nothing to do with don't ask, don't tell. It's don't ask and don't do. What is the sin of homosexuality that is not acted upon?

If yoiu think that's an offense then heterosexual priests with desires would not be suitable either.

48 posted on 03/13/2005 6:43:02 PM PST by bigsigh
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