[metmom]

And that mentality is still alive and well in the RCC.

Not much has changed over the years, has it?

[daniel1212]

But some so-called church "fathers" saw marriage and its relations as unclean.

And that mentality is still alive and well in the RCC. Not much has changed over the years, has it?

And then they try to justify requiring basically all her unscriptural "priests" to have the gift of celibacy, despite marriage being normative for Scriptural clergy (presbuteros), and with good fatherhood being a positive preparation for being shepherds. (1Tim. 3:1-7) And with all the apostles save for two being married, and the two that were not still had freedom to marry, not being under some vow of celibacy. (1Co. 9:4) One RC even excluded that text from being Scripture.