Its a sort of "married to the church and the kingdom of heaven" thing. Taking a wife or concubine would effectively be cheating on god. Not that I buy it, but there it is. There are some verses in Timothy and Corinthians (they escape me at the moment) that formed the basis of the practice in roman catholic clergy and it's been carried over into other (though not all) denominations. Interesting side note, lifelong celibacy is forbidden in islam, and only married men are called to be bishop in the mormon tradition.
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