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Pope tries to ban gay priests, again

Discussion in 'Current Events, World News, & LGBT News' started by Dan82, Dec 3, 2010.

  1. Dan82

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    But active pedophiles are fine. What a joke.
     
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    The thing about having a celibate priesthood is that in my opinion the people it is most likely to attract is people with an abnormal (whether in their eyes or the worlds eyes) sexuality/sexual preference.

    Take pedophiles for example. If you grow up and you find you are only attracted to children, the priesthood provides a seemingly perfect escape. I don't believe that most priests who have abused children entered the priesthood with that as their plan.

    For homosexuals in very anti-homosexual environments, the priesthood again provides another escape in a similar way.

    As priests, individuals can be celibate and never have to come out and express their sexuality while still being very respected members of their communities.

    I mean, when I was in the closet and in that state of mind I thought being a priest would be a great life, I would be a fully respected member of society. In the end I figured that there was a greater risk of my parents disowning me if I told them I wanted to be a priest than if I told them I was gay.
     
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    Think of how empty the priesthood would be with even celibate gay priests kicked out. And to be honest, LostandFound, I pondered the same thing after trying to force myself to do the whole "dating girls" thing. Being conservative Catholics, it would be a lot easier (and more respectable) for my parents to accept a priest in the family than it would be to accept a gay son. But as I have come to accept myself, I know I can't live a lie like that.
     
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    how come the church hates homosexuality, yet the minority of church clergy that violate underlings, tend to go for alter BOYS!!. I'm pretty sure that when a man makes love to man regardless of age he is still a homosexual or have I got the wrong orientation?

    Man love rules!!!!
     
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    This is probably being billed (or will be, or has been) as a way of keeping out pedophiles. The Church, like most homophobes, doesn't really distinguish between homosexuality, transexuality, pedophelia, bestiality, polygamy, etc. It sees all sex as either "normal" or "perverted."
     
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    Yeah this upsets me. I don't like being equated with a pedophile.
     
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    homosexuality and the catholic priesthood is a stereotype they will never be able to escape.