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blacktarrant September 22 2005, 21:49:54 UTC
So, uh, no new gay priests.

Already ordained priests are okay...

So long as the inquiries don't turn up 'evidence of homosexuality'.
(Which means if they don't appear to be gay, but have molested children and managed to keep it uber-quiet, they're okay, right? :P)

Does this scream 'witch hunt' to anyone else?

Along with a whole host of other, less suitable for mixed company words?

Also: Properly preparing them for celibacy?

Didn't some way old priesthoods just castrate their new members?
(No pun intended.)

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indy_go September 22 2005, 21:56:05 UTC
I know. It's all completely ridiculous.

How'd you like to be a gay priest already ordained? Man, nice to know your church thinks highly of the work you do.

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ataralas September 23 2005, 06:07:16 UTC
*sigh* The Catholic Church's interpretation of Pauline ideas about sexuality is just plain pathological.

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indy_go September 23 2005, 07:14:46 UTC
I just. Do they not see the message this sends? Or do they just not care?

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ataralas September 23 2005, 20:02:26 UTC
I think it's a little of column A and a little of column B. I don't think they understand just how hurtful it is. And a little bit that they don't care in the name of having "standards".

And most of all, it's theologically troublesome for me, because it is the cast-out, the undesireable, the lonely that Christ most ministered to. And Christ never said anything about gay people. At all.

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