You Go Pope: Gays Rejected From Service

Argues Dell Gines, a black moderate & evangelical Christian, on Vatican policy: "I have heard many bizarre extra-biblical rationale for why gays should be tolerated as reverends, ministers and priest[s], but most of the time it involves bible butchery and slight of hand scriptural interpretation. I am not a Catholic, but I believe the Vatican got it right in their latest publication on Gay priest[s] when they state: …men with 'deep-seated' homosexual tendencies should not be ordained but those with a 'transitory problem' could be if they had overcome them for three years.....The Vatican took a stand, a stand that I consider biblical, and I applaud them for it. It is time to stop letting the immoral inmates, and post modern humanistic wolves guised in sheeps' clothing from running our religious asylums. Homosexuality is immoral, and although it is forgivable and overcom[e]able, it shouldn’t be sanctioned in the Christian faith as acceptable."

I thought all priests were to refrain from sexual activity, so there shouldn't be heterosexual or homosexual priests? While I support gay rights (including gay marriage), I do not believe that it must extend to religion. If you don't like a particular religion's rules on the issue, then you have the choice to join another faith or none at all. Although the Vatican's new policy ('deep-seated' vs. 'transitory' gay feelings) is awfully vague and trying to have it both ways.