We have a similar situation with the argument that only by passing gun control laws can we keep them out of the hands of criminals. The criminals don't care ~ that's because they are criminals.
Pedophiles are hardly deterred from their mission of sex with kids simply because women may be more available to them.
The Roman Catholic church has been filled with homosexuals and pedophiles for centuries. To deny that fact is to keep it going.
Right. Like the RCC priesthood.
If the RCC priesthood attracted men of substance, men of honor, men whose minds and hearts had been renewed by the Holy Spirit, the RCC wouldn't be in the tawdry position it has put itself into.
I have a friend who is a raging vegetarian. I asked her once why she didn't eat eggs, and her response was "I don't like eggs."
Apparently it's easy to give up what we don't really desire.
And so it is with men who are drawn to the RCC priesthood. They "give up" wives and children because they don't really want them.
They want something else. They want to be called "another Christ" (in both their personal as well as private lives, as Father Kenneth Baker told us) and to wear long skirts and have people kneel to them and kiss their rings.
Rome has been content with that situation for centuries. If it weren't for all this pesky publicity, nothing would change.