on 11-01-2015 10:29 AM
on 11-01-2015 05:36 PM
11-01-2015 05:45 PM - edited 11-01-2015 05:46 PM
@donnashuggy wrote:So you would prefer there were no gay priests? Is that what you are saying icy?
No I don't care either way. I would uncomfortable with a priest standing up at the pulpit in church and telling everyone he's gay though. Not that I'm catholic or go to church anyway.
a. because it's none of my business or anyone else's what his personal sexual leanings are, anymore than I would get up in front of an audience and announce that I was hetero. It would be inappropriate
b. because I would consider it a breach of his celibacy vows.
c. in light of the revelations of child abuse in the church I'd feel I couldn't trust him around children.
I think I made my views why quite clear here and if ppl don't agree, so be it.
on 11-01-2015 05:49 PM
on 11-01-2015 05:51 PM
on 11-01-2015 05:51 PM
perhaps read back over my posts Donna. I don't like to repeat myself over and over again.
on 11-01-2015 05:54 PM
I think icey is hiding in the closet 🙂
on 11-01-2015 05:55 PM
on 11-01-2015 05:56 PM
That's where the other clothes are kept.
on 11-01-2015 06:10 PM
@icyfroth wrote:
@donnashuggy wrote:So you would prefer there were no gay priests? Is that what you are saying icy?
No I don't care either way. I would uncomfortable with a priest standing up at the pulpit in church and telling everyone he's gay though. Not that I'm catholic or go to church anyway.
a. because it's none of my business or anyone else's what his personal sexual leanings are, anymore than I would get up in front of an audience and announce that I was hetero. It would be inappropriate
b. because I would consider it a breach of his celibacy vows.
c. in light of the revelations of child abuse in the church I'd feel I couldn't trust him around children.
I think I made my views why quite clear here and if ppl don't agree, so be it.
b. because I would consider it a breach of his celibacy vows.
Icy, you are labouring under a huge misconception here. A priest can be homosexual, heterosexual or even bisexual without breaching his vow of celibacy. these terms refer to a man's sexual orientation (what turns him on, if you like) it does not have to meanhe is sexually active
I asked you in a previous post if you believed that in order to keep his vow of celibacy a priest had to be a eunuch.and you agreed that such wasindeed your belief. I don't think you understand what the word eunuch means. A eunuch is not someone who abstains from sexual activity, - it is someone who is incapable of sexual activity. Are you saying you have believed all these years that all priests are (or are supposed to be) impotent?
on 11-01-2015 06:16 PM