Why do Catholics allow this? It is not 1547. Catholics get divorced, have children out of wedlock, use birth control and do all vices just as non-Catholics. Do they fear they will not go to heaven after having sinned in other ways? Makes no sense to a thinking person.
If you are going to break one rule why keep this one?
I have seen several gay priests.....
Why all this double standred?
And please I am not trying to badger the church, honest, I just want people to think instead of following rules think for yourself. Don't follow a rule because your mother and grandmother and her grandmother followed it but think for yourself what makes sense and what is best for you.