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Post by Toasted Cheese on Oct 11, 2018 10:42:19 GMT
Most people are not going to think gay before straight, even with the Catholic clergy, so while we know that the celibacy rule isn't always adhered too, Catholicism is still largely anti-homo, regardless of their church being perceived as a sanctuary for gay clergy. What irony aye! And if one is taking a celibacy vow, then the sexuality of the priesthood should be irrelevant, because they are supposed to deny it. You must look at human cultures as they exist in reality, with all their beauty and their ugliness. Traditionally in India there have been transsexuals called hijra, who castrate themselves to live as women and prostitute themselves for heterosexual males. Not a nice and liberated role IMHO for queer people. Yet this is how Hindus found an outlet for transsexuals. A similar oppressive dynamic occurred in Medieval Catholic societies with the priesthood. It attracted homosexual males and females who could not or would not marry and have children. Yet the society found a safe harbor for these non-conforming people. To this day the Catholic clergy is still overwhelming homosexual. It is what it is. My main point though, was that a religious cult that perceives homosexuality as ultimately sinful— and this is still present culture with many religions—then provides a sanctuary for them, except with the added clause of going celibate, that then absurdly asks them to deny what or who they are. And regardless of the sexuality of the priest, going celibate is supposed to attribute an air of sexlessness— or is that asexual Gamey  —when the vast majority of these priests are anything but. This is just what it is and I am not making any excuses for the Catholic Churches hypocrisy and double standards, even if it is supposedly being compassionate by providing a safe harbor for these non-conforming people. It has just caused more issues within their phony ranks. Are the hetero priests non-conforming too? There would be more of them I would say? |
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—when the vast majority of these priests are anything but. This is just what it is and I am not making any excuses for the Catholic Churches hypocrisy and double standards, even if it is supposedly being compassionate by providing a safe harbor for these non-conforming people. It has just caused more issues within their phony ranks. Are the hetero priests non-conforming too? There would be more of them I would say?