It would certainly help release thair sexual urges if they were able to have sex. The chastity thing is a farce, nowhere in the bible does it say that priests should be chaste. Nor does it say that sex is a sin if it is done within the context of the scriptures teaching.
The no sex rule was introduced by R Catholic church because they believed if a priest was chaste he could devote all of his energies to the church, however, it has caused more bad than good.
I don't believe that being chaste causes paedophelia, there are paedophiles out there who are not priests or chaste. Paedophiles are creeps who prey on children because they are too immature/inadequate to relate to adults so abuse kids.
2006-09-05 13:47:51
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answered by iamwhoiam 5
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How do you think that marriage would cure a pedophile when there are many pedophiles who are married and more pedophiles that are not priests than those who are priests?
Try looking at the FBI's most wanted list. The fact is that your child is most likely to be molested by anyone other than a priest.
The fact is about 2% of all priests in the world have ever been accused of sexual abuse, and most of those cases are from over 20 years ago (mostly in America, especially in the Boston area).
The Church scandal is more about homosexual sexual abuse than about pedophilia since 81% of the sex scandal accusations involve an admittedly homosexual priest and a young man.
Personally, I am scared to death of sending my daughters to public school where they have to spend all day 5 days a week away from me with a stranger.
2006-09-05 20:54:02
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answered by Life 2
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I think pedophiles were drawn to the priesthood for the same reasons they become elementary teachers baseball coaches and the like so that they can have access to children. They were pedophiles to begin with
. Celibacy is a great way to honor God If your a monk on a hill with other monks on hills. Its not a good idea if your in society because then it becomes a constant battle that. That constant inner turmoil and self hatred manifests itself into hatred for anything sexual. Sex becomes evil. The sexual tension often turned into the beating of children sado masochistic expressions in place of sex. Ask any child who went to catholic school they all have one sadistic abusive tale from some nun priest or brother.
Despite this The majority of priests and nuns are very very good people and do more in a day for others than most people do in 6 months.
I think they should marry. If they want to take a vow of celabacy they should be monks.
2006-09-05 20:52:59
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answered by Rich 5
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Sick, twisted, disgusting brains cause people to be pedophiles. Not celibicy.
Do I think priests should be allowed to marry? Absolutely. Genesis 2:18 says, " And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."
Not only that, but how on earth is a priest in any position to counsel couples on marriage? He has never experienced "true" marriage. He can not possilby understand all of the intimacy's and disagreements that married people have because he has never experienced them for himself.
2006-09-05 20:59:19
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answered by ktjokt 3
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Being married doesn't preclude being a pedophile. There are plenty of married pedophiles.
The reason that priests don't get married (what I've been told) is because they're supposed to be married to the church. If they were married and the priest of a large parish, either the church would get the short end of the stick or his family and wife would.
2006-09-05 20:39:54
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answered by shrinkydinkheart 4
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The chaste thing does not "cause" priests to be pedophiles.
This is a logical fallacy. It implies that the priests have no choice about the matter, as if their bodies became robots and they watched helplessly as they raped and molested other human beings.
2006-09-05 20:37:55
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answered by Anonymous
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i think they should be allowed to marry; however, i don't think this will help the ones who'd still be pedophiles anyway. one thing that could help would be to have more than one person present whenever any children are around by themselves. if u've got nothing to hide, then u won't mind having maybe another priest , a parent, or even a nun around to make sure that ev. thing's ok. it works both ways, maybe a teenage girl is preg & doesn't want to get in trouble so she blames it on the priest. in other words, ev. one's protected.
2006-09-05 20:41:58
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answered by lady sixx 6
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Apparently hockey causes coaches to be pedophiles too.
They should probably have certain parts removed that aren't required for a chaste man.
2006-09-05 20:42:28
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answered by Penelope's Mom 3
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The NOT HAVING SEX thing does not make them Pedophiles......They have a sick urge to touch children!!!!! Marriage would not help this...they would still do it...why do you think they became priests in the first place?....so they could have access to kids!
2006-09-05 20:40:37
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answered by Anonymous
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If a man really wants to have sex with children and teenage boys then how will being married to an adult woman help him? These perverts aren't interested in women. If they were just dying to have sex with women that's what they would be doing. Trust me, there are plenty of adult women who would get turned on by a forbidden relationship like that. But they aren't chasing after women, they're going after children, especially teenage boys.
2006-09-05 20:57:29
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answered by Sass B 4
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