[Oldcath-l] Celibacy Is Not The Problem

[Sam'l B]

+Marty wrote:
> Catholic Church: Celibacy Is Not The Problem
> Telesphor R. Magobe - 9/5/2006 
> What has prompted me to share my views on the above subject are two articles
> that appeared in recent editions of a popular local Kiswahili weekly that
> specializes in analytical and investigative features. In the first piece,
> the author called on the Roman Catholic Church to abolish the discipline of
> celibacy to her clergy. He took sexual scandals among the clergy as a basis
> for his arguments but he doesn't really go further than that.
This reminds me powerfully of John F. Kennedy's comment on the Church 
and Celibacy, which was to the effect that these guys went into the 
seminary as young teenagers, and have no experience whatever with sex. 
Discussion of it just makes them nervous and irritable.

The second argument -- that lack of sex makes people crazy and rapacious 
-- is equally bogus. This is a conclusion that most adolescents come to 
about two weeks after discovering the joy of auto-eroticism: "Gee, if I 
couldn't do this, I'd go crazy!" Adults know better -- or should.

+Sam'l