God's Purity Plan

Marriage.

Cardinal Francis Spellman of New York, may he rest in peace, one of the longest tenured Roman Catholic Cardinals in America was widely believed to be a rabidly voracious homosexual conducting affairs with members of broadway casts and fellow priests alike. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Spellman

http://www.nypress.com/article-5826-cardinal-spellmans-dark-legacy.html
Don't lie-you heard about it too.
He was one of the starkest defenders of the old orthodoxy- For the Vietnam War, Against Vatican II reforms, against even a Mass in anything but Latin.
So wrong on so many fronts for so many years.

This is, I pray, what we will all say in 50 years about the people who now resist a Marriage Option in the Priesthood.

God had a purity plan. He created man and no temptation known to man did he not know. He knew how man was sexually wired and he wired it to make propagation of the species highly enjoyable. He never told priests not to marry- in Jewish tradition it was almost a requirement and the early scriptures (Leviticus, Talmud, Torrah) contain rules for what kind of person is suitable to be a priestly wife for a Cohen or a Levite (with requirements differing for each.)
The first Pope, Peter, was a married man and Jesus knew it.
1 Timothy 4 warns that there will be some in the latter days who forbid marriage- and that is flatly evil.
Paul says "better to marry than burn" if one is not "gifted of the holy spirit" for celibacy-- it is now estimated at least a third of the entire Priesthood is not and regularly engage in some form of sexual behavior, hetero, homo or auto, while engaging in an institutionally intellectually dishonest policy of denial.

The Jewish orthodoxy had a plan for sexual purity. Marry, have sex half the month and take half the month off. This followed a natural menstrual cycle because it was deemed unclean to be with someone during menstruation or for the week cleansing period thereafter- meaning two weeks of the month is off limits. This engendered restraint, developing of a deeper non-sexually based love for the spouse and makes it all the more special when intimacy could take place. It gave people a break, and synched their sexuality to each other in a way that makes sense. It also guaranteed the strongest sexual activity happened during the time where ovulation cycles made it more likely that conception occurred. God is smart-he knows what he is doing. He made everything.

The biblical requirement for "Bishop" is that the man must be a husband of one wife-not many like polygamous heathen surrounding nations, not none like a social misfit or someone too heavenly minded to be any earthly good as an aescetic in the wilderness- Both too many wives and no wife are hinderances to effective service as a "Bishop" in the biblical plan-for reasons too obvious to here mention. In some areas you otherwise might just not have the first clue what you are talking about.

If you have a car, and it has an owner's manual, and the owner's manual says that you are to change the oil every 3,000 miles to save your engine, you should do it. In fact it is deemed so important to the life and health of a car that these oil changings are registered on a maintenance record for sale and new buyers routinely ask to see the oil changing schedules to make sure that they are not getting a lemon with an engine that is going to conk out after the test drive.
Sure you could find a thousand excuses why you don't have time to change the oil- it costs money, it is diverting of attention from the drive and destination. But nevertheless, you should change the oil, dump out all the old oil and get new clean oil in your engine.

The bible is your owner's manual. God is your maker. He told you that his plan for purity is marriage. This goes for individually priests (at least those not "gifted by the holy spirit for celibacy) and for the Institution. The car is the entire Institution. It is not hard to see how much the Church is suffering for having to follow the "discipline" of mandatory lifetime celibacy.
The deceptions and intellectual dishonesty that follow for having an institution entirely composed of single men who think that anything they sexually do is forgiven so long as they don't create children that the church has to financially take care of which requires expulsion for the financial liability is perverse and unchristian and lends itself to the most heinous abuses- that everyone is paying for.
Let me repeat that. Everyone is paying for this. The little old lady throwing her last widow's mite dollar in the bucket, the hard working professional trying to save for a house, the laborer trying to put food on the table, the relief worker trying to rescue children from rubble in an earthquake. Everyone is paying for the perversity of the abuses that this doctrinal error causes.

The mandatory lifetime celibacy of priests should be revoked. There should be a marriage Option for those whose ministries would be helped by this. It will be light years less expensive than paying out abuse settlements. Two billion and counting in the US alone.

Who has ever heard of the "Pink Palace"? Here is a scary website- and it's only getting worse out there.
http://www.tldm.org/news6/wolves.htm