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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I have spoken with a man of the cloth who believes that being a priest will cancel out him being homosexual. I think this is why a lot of girls become Catholic priests.

I also know for a fact that a lot of gay priests clump together in the church and consider themselves a fraternity of sorts. Kind of like a pink Opus Dei. And apparently, it's a hard group to work with when you're a straight priest or deacon.

Interesting, no?

Interesting, yes. And exactly what I expected.

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

Here's a thought: could the suppression of information about Jesus' hypothetical marriage have come about at the same time that they decided priests should be celibate? Perhaps the suppression of that info was to give the impression that Jesus was himself celibate as a roving rabbi?

That's exactly the process I think happened. It was 1- understood implicitly, that a man of the times would have been married, only mentioned if he was *not* married; 2- not considered important enough to write down; or 3- suppressed intentionally. Your thought that it was to coordinate with the new celibacy of priests is quite likely. It's how these things happen. How could they expect priests to be celibate if Christ himself was not?

Originally Posted by PanTheMan

Then we would be back to Gay Marriage. Except this time it would be mostly Lesbians marrying Gay Men...lol

So it's an older custom than I thought. Still happening, for various reasons.