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Urbane Guerrilla · 03-31-2007, 01:37 AM

Maybe it's about time to go back to allowing RC priests to marry. They cut that off to end the nepotism of hereditary sees -- which did not prevent the Church from becoming a huge economic bloc in Europe in the centuries following.

But a commitment to celibacy has an appeal to someone running from what is undeniably his sexuality, however reprehensible, and I think this is one root of the Church's sex scandals. Why not strike at that root?

03-31-2007, 01:37 AM	#6
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Maybe it's about time to go back to allowing RC priests to marry. They cut that off to end the nepotism of hereditary sees -- which did not prevent the Church from becoming a huge economic bloc in Europe in the centuries following. But a commitment to celibacy has an appeal to someone running from what is undeniably his sexuality, however reprehensible, and I think this is one root of the Church's sex scandals. Why not strike at that root? __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.