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Arizona Daily Wildcat
By Ella Peterson
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Friday, September 30, 2005
Gays, liberals and proponents of equal rights are already railing against the imminent Vatican instructions banning gay men from entering seminaries. However, this ban has been well-received by certain conservative priests, some of whom claim that the restriction on gay seminarians is "for their own good."
Just as church authorities once banned epileptics from the priesthood, they assert that years of studying in the presence of only other men would be too much of a strain on the celibacy of a homosexual man.
Apparently, according to the esteemed clergy of the Roman Catholic Church, everyone knows that sexual orientation has a tremendous effect on the control of one's sexual impulses, and gay men cannot be expected to make such an intense commitment of faith as celibacy.