Is Celibacy Unnatural?

This week Robert MacGregor Fuller, a 54-year-old Catholic priest from Sydney, Australia, was sentenced to a maximum of 18 months imprisonment for arranging to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex. He met the girl on the Internet and used his webcam to send her a video of himself masturbating. The "girl" turned out to be a police detective.

The judge said the Catholic Church's vow of celibacy for priests may have led Fuller to become sexually frustrated and that the Church's rules were archaic and cruel. - The Age, Melbourne, 25 February 2010

Some men choose to be celibate and may be quite happy. But forced celibacy is unnatural. It's true that Catholic priests choose to take a vow of celibacy at the time they decide to become a priest, however, if they don't take the vow they can't become a priest.

In this way the Catholic Church is responsible for creating a group of dysfunctional males who can't have a wife, can't father children and can't have normal, natural sex. These men are then placed in positions of power over innocent children, impressionable adolescents and vulnerable adults.

Read more about the Robert MacGregor Fuller case.