re: #21 MandyManners

Intolerance of homosexuality breeds pedophilia?

No, and you know I wasn’t implying that.

I was saying that arbitrary moral codes imposed on clergy have no effect, and potentially even exacerbate, transgressions by clergy who would normally be wired that way.

If removing celibacy requirements reduces the need for repressed clergy to act on their heterosexual impulses, you’d still have trouble with homosexual clergy who aren’t allowed to act on theirs either.

Churches should concern themselves with keeping their members from hurting others. Not with holding their members to some arbitrary moral code which is ineffective and simply causes them to hurt even more people than they otherwise would.