Should the church get rid of celibacy?

That was one thing I never understood; how the hell can you offer someone advice on a topic you know nothing about and can't even begin to understand?
I think they should be married. =/ Or at least have the option to get married.

Changing the rules may help some of even most of them, but there are some like O'Grady that were pedophiles before they were a Priest and remain basically the same. I think they need to screen them better before they ever get in the Priesthood and do a much better job of policing their organization. And we can't forget that one of the sex offender Priest's biggest asset is that their victims are raised to believe that a Priest can do no wrong, that they are the voice of God and as such are raised higher than ordinary people.

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No, it's not. Biologically speaking, men are more prone to sexual promiscuity due to the fact that they are able to pass on their seed, produce more, and continue doing it. Women, on the other hand, are born with a very limited supply of usable eggs, and therefore have to be more cautious about whom they choose to invest their genes with. Which is why in nature you see female animals choosing males based upon their display, while males are content with any female who will have them. It is because males can waste a little-or a lot of genes with an unfit female and go on to many other females, but females can't do the same with males.

However socially and psychologically it's not baseless either. Women have been reinforced since the Victorian era that sexual voraciousness is a male quality, and that women are supposed to say no, and be the moral pillars of society. Hence the excuse "boys will be boys." So women repress their sexual urges more frequently than men, because they won't be forgiven for them.

I think it's all quite stupid, and needs to change. But they are based on studies and history.

Now, I do not agree with celibacy in the church. We are all human. Heck, part of the biological classification of a living being is the ability to reproduce. You can't tell me that suppressing one of the 6 biological traits to be categorized as living is healthy. It just breeds contempt, and you can't maintain the state. So eventually when you give into the need to have sex, it blows up. Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, I believe all Protestant religious officials are allowed to have spouses. And look, whenever you hear of a molestation charge about a Christian religious leader, 9 times out of 10 it is from a Catholic official (I am sure Protestant religious leaders have molested too, but obviously there is a frequency pattern here.) In fact my one major complaint about Catholicism is the fact their religious leaders can't have sex, well, and their rigid belief about birth control.

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Of course, the priests should be able to marry. A great therapist I know is an ex-Catholic priest very happily married. He became an alcoholic while a priest and very depressed, partially because of the prohibition against sex.
And because he is ACTUALLY a Christian as opposed to a sycophant, just looking for a respectable free meal.
"He who swaps his liberty for the promise of 'security' deserves neither." Ben Franklin

I would like to see a documentary that focuses more on the *causes* of this epidemic in the Church. This documentary touched on some, but only briefly - for example, the Catholic/cultural belief that sex is inherently bad, the stunting of generations of clergy's psycho-sexual development, the church's power structure and inherent belief that God himself has placed them in power...

This is a BIG problem and the only way it's going to be fixed is if the Church decides to really overhaul itself - which I don't see happening because it would mean a loss of some power over the faithful. Sad to say it, but it seems like some in the upper echelons of the Church dearly love their money/power and will not do anything that may jeopardize it.