Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Three years and you're in

The Pope has banned any candidate showing "a homosexual tendency" from training to be a priest - "unless they can demonstrate that they have been able to remain chaste for at least three years."

Can anyone explain to me how to "demonstrate" that I've remained chaste for three years? Live in the Big (Christian) Brother House, perhaps?

It's fair enough to say that "The Church . . . cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practise homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called 'gay culture'", but to then offer a three-year get-out clause is bizarre, isn't it?

I can see it now - save it up for three years, move in with all the other guys (who've also been holding it in for three years), and then .. . . wheeee, welcome to the candy store.

And I have profound suspicions of the assertion that the Church does this "while profoundly respecting the persons in question."

Sounds more like lip service to me.

The above-the-waist kind, that is.

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