Reply #9: How about a compromise solution? [View All]

[kweerwolf]

Keep the priesthood celibate. But if a priest feels the need for a little tension-relieving fornication now and then, go back to the practice of selling indulgences. One indulgence would be worth one night of passion with the consensual, adult partner of the priest's choosing. Not only would that make the priests a happier, less prone to temptation bunch, but it would generate more money for the church to offset all those members who are withholding their donations in protest of the Vatican's handling of the pedophile scandal.

(I have to admit that the title of this thread made me visualize a bunch of robed monks tying Paul Lynde's "Uncle Arthur" character from "Bewitched" to a stake and lighting a fire while he screams, "You bitches! I look better in those robes than you ever will!") :evilgrin: