Religion and LGBT people

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The Catholic church can't even keep it's own priests celibate, how can it expect anyone else to refrain from sexual activity?

The overwhelming vast majority of Catholic priests are celibate, but you will not read news stories about them.

Oh, really... then why:

One of the former priests ... did a study for the church to try to understand the sex lives of priests and found that over 50 percent of priests, that he could ascertain, were not observing celibacy.

This was a study done by the Vatican, by a priest, who subsequently left the Church. I'm guessing he had a reason to misrepresent his fellow priests? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...hurch.html

The Church does not ask people to refrain from sexual activity. it simply, recommends that we enjoy sex only within committed relationships.

Committed relationships are denied priests, because their "committed relationship" is with god. I guess god doesn't put out much.

It is not difficult not to have sex - we are not mindless-animals and neither do we actually require to have sex.

Two words: Nocturnal emissions. Men who don't have sex or masturbate, have wet dreams. I agree, we are not mindless-animals, but we do exhibit certain basic, animalistic qualities such as the fight or flight response, defending our offspring, and yes, the desire for sex, which can vary from individual to individual, some have stronger desires for sex than others, but most people have sexual desires.