Bishops

Should be the Husband of ONE Wife.

Look it up. I know you have a concordance-or a 'googler.' Why? Why is this a COMMAND.
It is a BIBLICAL COMMAND for a number of reasons to stop a number of anticipated perversions of thoughtlife or behavior if it is not followed. You don't have to be a genius to figure it out. Most all the protestant world has. It's called Grow Up Get a Real Life time.

Let's take the NO WIVES situation:

1/ The Groupiefication of Church Women.
One reason there needs to be clerical leaders who have one wife is so that they don't mislead flocks of the fold down the primrose path to delusion. Women for the most part want to follow the commandment to be fruitful and multiply-and when you have a groupiefying priest leading lots of women on none of them are obedient to that commandment. It is inconsiderate.
It is too too tempting to be a groupiefying priest for the ego flattery (all the attention, none of the demands of a real relationship like fixing the car, taking out the trash, picking up the check and dealing with a scumbag landlord or a fraudulent mortgage company or having to save money for kids education or someone else's dental bills...)
Priests can start trading on looks if theirs are anything worth looking at. That is not what the church should be 'selling.' It turns priests into whores.
Priests can also start wondering how else, if they can't deal with women they are going to take care of burning needs. Hence, the perversions that have so far cost around 2 bil -and you cannot tell me that the prohibition on married priests has anything to do with that.

2/ Multiple Wives makes for Mayhem and Adultery is Against the Law.
Some priests inspire multiple fake church basement wives to inspire service to do all the stuff for free that has to be done when there is no money to pay anyone salaries. This is basically common law emotional adultery at its finest. If you have ever been in a sorority house for more than a day you know that the rivalries and jealousies of 'get a life' church women in these situations is anything but Holy and inspires sin upon sin upon sin.


The wisdom in the Bible in REQUIRING as a COMMAND that a BISHOP be a man married to ONE woman with his household in order is so sound it is amazing that the church has thrown the baby out with the Mikvah waters. It is easy to blame the women -and some self-loathing women like to do that to others. But the institutional practices have to be aligned with the Biblical mandates to make it work the way God wanted it to.

The Catholic Church is just 'off' as they say-like a bit of bad milk -when it comes to this sort of blatant persecution of women who threaten their illusions. I therefore repeat my request that if you must go celebrate Wuerl being Cardinal, please wear PINK or Chartreuse, Or Burgundy or something a wee bit off the standard Cardinal Red. Because they think the Holy Family were androgenous or that 'family' only means all men, living with men, effectively common law married to men calling themselves 'holy.' You won't see me there- sorry.

You know exactly what I am talking about. Church secretaries from an era where men did marry their secretaries acting like pissants towards other women they think like "their" priest, old 'Watergate widows' treating grown men like their on-call pet priestly poodles, check-writing, committee chair Sera ladies emotionally bribing effectively priests, and various and sundry other seductrices playing church with graduate degrees in things like theology 'of the body' reminding them how sexy they are and how superior they think they are to all the rest of the groupies vying for budgetary dollars and attention.

If men can't view women as other than Groupies, check-writing bankrollers, or temptation, they have no business calling themselves priests much less Bishops. You must have had mothers people. A sister maybe? Would they stand for that crap? Pick One or sit down and shut up is what I want to say after watching a parade of chest-protruding sychophants try to snag a priest who is probably Gay anyway ladies.

If they could marry- you could tell quicker couldn't you.

Now I wish to be left alone in my 'I was happier Presbyterian' phase- those guys were normal.