re: #2 jamesfirecat

I have two suggestions.

1: Let priests be able to get married, my knee jerk reaction is that if they were able to have normal healthy intercourse they wouldn’t be forced to do things like this…

A fine suggestion, but I would point out that we’ve had a lot of homosexual and/or underaged sex scandals in US Protestant churches as well, because of their own brand of intolerance.

It often doesn’t grow to the same proportions because they lack the centralized authority of the Catholic Church, but one need only look at someone like Ted Haggard to see that churches forcing clergy into a lifestyle that goes against their basic wiring is always bound to end poorly, and hurt not just the supposed sinner, but everyone around them as well.