Well, it sure didn't take long for the increased publicity of sexual assaults by priest to lead to calls for eliminating mandatory celibacy for priests.
This just in: Mandatory celibacy is NOT the reason why a priest sexually assaults anyone. Any sensible person realizes that sexual assault is NOT a crime of sex. It is a crime of power. For every article about a priest that has sexually assaulted a child, there are several articles about teachers/coaches sexually assaulting young people in our school systems. There are numerous articles about boyfriends sexually assaulting the children of their girlfiends. I see such articles several times a week. These perpetrators are not under a vow of celibacy, yet they still sexually assault young people.
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