Kinda funny to hear a Catholic defend their church in a thread about the UMC ordaining gays. I remember reading an article about the % of Catholic seminarians who believed celibacy was defined as “No sex with women”.
It is kinda strange. Like bees are drawn to honey. When I worked at a Catholic Boys Home, during the Watergate Hearings three of us counselors along with the younger Priest watched it with pizza and beer while the Boys were at school. Father Hogan shocked us when he said he had never been asked to take an oath of celibacy.
Thinking back some of those boys had been remanded to custody, and then placed in the Boys Home by the courts, after being picked up on the streets turning tricks for money to live. I didn't last long at that job.