Sep 20 2009
Miami Strip Clubs: Priest sex scandals: Time to let them marry?
Priest sex scandals: Time to let them marry?
by Rhonda Swan
Isn’t it time the Catholic Church seriously considered allowing priests to marry?
Though it would do nothing to stop pedophile priests who enjoy the sexual company of little boys – grown women don’t do it for them – it would give those who like women the opportunity for a normal romantic and family life.
And, perhaps, the Church could then avoid such scandals as the one involving Rev. David Dueppen, an associate priest at St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Pembroke Pines who’s on leave for allegedly impregnating his girlfriend, a former stripper.
Dueppen, 42, used to serve sacraments at the same Miami Beach parish as Rev. Alberto Cutie, the former Catholic priest who admitted fornicating with his girlfriend whom he later married. Cutie joined the Episcopal Church, which has the good sense to let its clerics enter holy matrimony.