And the protestant contingent is dragged into that for what reason exactly?
Whoever said that they thought they were out to destroy the Catholic priesthood and thus bring down the RCC?
Do you guys just make up stuff like that all the time to accuse people of?
Which is absurd seeing as how the Church screens prospective seminarians to weed out homosexuals.
Speaking of absurd, how that working out for ya?
Like they're not going to lie about it?
This is the only issue where protestants claim that doctrine (discipline) is the cause of sin.
If it's not doctrine, then there's no need to demand it, then is there?
Because the MSM and protestantism make common cause with each other. That's why. Oh sure, the MSM does it from the homosexual/abortion angle and the protestants do it form the doctrine angle. Truly a distinction without a difference, however. It's not like we haven't seen these types of alliances before, i.e., the alliance between leftists and islamists.
Whoever said that they thought they were out to destroy the Catholic priesthood and thus bring down the RCC?
Like I said, Elizabeth I made a go of it by suppressing the priesthood and the episcopacy specifically to prevent ordination so this is not without precedent. We just have a MSM and scores of ignorant protestants to take up the slack from where Elizabeth left off.
Speaking of absurd, how that working out for ya?
I hear its working good. Vocations are up. Lots of faithful, heterosexual priests are being ordained these days now that the seminaries have been cleared out. And now we're working on the convents.
Like they're not going to lie about it?
Well at least one protestant is willing to admit its a matter of homosexual infiltration and subversion; not a matter of discipline.
If it's not doctrine, then there's no need to demand it, then is there?
We have a visible Church that has structure. That requires administration. I know protestants hate to hear that with all of their secular talk of autocratic bureaucracy with its rules and regulations etcetera ad nauseum. Priestly celibacy makes sense administratively, theologically, biblically and in all manner of other categories.
As an aside, this whole protestant obsession with what is "needed" and "not needed" is merely a rationalistic tendency to serve self. To serve what is desirable according to the individual. It's not a measure of truth.