The Catholic Church should allow married clergy. In fact this is allowed in the Eastern Rite of the Catholic Church and even encouraged in the Orthodox Church.
Such an action would go far towards flushing out homosexual priests.
However, in some Protestant churches that allow married ministers, homosexual ministers are still a serious problem.
Christianity as a whole is an interconnected organism. When there are problems in one Christian denomination, these tend to pop up also as problems in others.
While homosexuality can be a genetic issue, a great many homosexuals acquire this vice through exposure to it and permitting openly homosexual ministers and priests creates a broodery for new recruits to this vice as these openly homosexual individuals proselytize their aberrant lifestyle.
In my opinion, you can’t be a Christian if you reject Old Testament condemnation of homosexuality, reject the concept that marriage is between one man and one woman, support and promote abortion except in very limited circumscribed instances, reject the personality and existence of Satan, reject the reality of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, and question the immortality of the soul or the existence of a Supreme Being and Christ as God or reject the acceptance of the Bible as the prime source of religious direction. I think all of those qualifications apply to nearly all Christian denominations as followed from the inception of Christianity through the early and mid 1900s.
I agree with most all that you say.. not that you need my agreement. LOL.
The Church is following the model of the Old Testament and of Jesus in the New Testament. Some priests are married, as you probably know, but if priests are devout and praying The Office six times a day, baptizing, marrying, visiting all the ill in the parish, counseling converts, counseling the troubled, running the parish business and the schools, meeting with the Parish Counsel and the Altar Society and the youth, it is virtually impossible to manage a healthy marriage.
I realize that the world does not look at the nuts and bolts of the demands on priests, and many priests are loyal to their vows and do willingly take up that cross. Many others are social gadflies and do not. Nevertheless, the New Testament lays out the poverty of the Apostles and their mission, on foot, that in no way allows for marriage.
Active homosexual behaviour would have been dealt with. Ex-communication would have followed, and even possibly, I don’t know, these types would never have been trusted in the first place. I just don’t know for sure. I do know that if they were inactive and recognized the irregularity of their attraction, the Church had given them reprieve. I think I could not have done that.
But marriage, I don’t see it as the answer to anything if Jesus and the Apostles are our model and the role of the priest is understood and carried out well.
“Such an action would go far towards flushing out homosexual priests.”
Seems to me every single group that now allows openly gay clergy in relationships and ‘marriage’ first allowed married clergy. Why didn’t their married clergy stop the acceptance of gay acts in those groups?
“However, in some Protestant churches that allow married ministers, homosexual ministers are still a serious problem.”
They openly put them in leadership roles.
Also, the folks of any faith or none who are the most supportive of the homosexual agenda also invariably hate the Catholic discipline of celibacy and want it to end. Try to find one ‘gay marriage’ supporting Catholic or someone of any faith who also thinks the discipline of celibacy is valuable and should be continued. You would think they would be clamouring to keep Catholic celibacy around or instituting it in their own faith if it was so conducive to the gay agenda, but it is the exact opposite. Why is that?
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