On 2/8/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> In grad school, I had an acquaintance (Catholic
> himself) who was doing a PhD in the history of
> American Catholicism. According to him, before the GI
> Bill, many Italian and Irish immigrants joined the
> priesthood as a means to get an education and climb
> out of poverty. Since there are alternatives today,
> Catholic men who want to get married and have a family
> just won't do it. Leaving it to homosexuals (who can't
> get married anyway).
>
>
> --- Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > at least in the US, the Catholic clergy tends to
> > attract those who are
> > very insecure about their sexuality, whatever it is.
> > (They also have
> > to be believers, natch, at least when they join.)
> > Since the 1960s, a
> > lot of hetero-types have quite to get married...
> >
> > On 2/8/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > > That "How Gay Are You?" poll should have had the
> > > question, "Are you a member of Catholic clergy?"
> >
> > --
> > Jim Devine [at Loyola Marymount University]
> > Bust Big Brother Bush!
> >
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