I read somewhere (and don't take these as facts because these are only approximate) that before about the 10th century, priests could have wives.
In fact (what I heard) was that the priests had all sorts of wives and sons.
However, due to the fact the inheritence of their kids was mixed up in the revenues of the church, 1 pope wanted to ban priests kids getting any of the church property as inheritence.
So after that he said priests couldn't be married.
Fast forward 1 thousand years later and we have these nasty disgusting pervert priests.
The thing about the Christian religion that bothers me the most is all the warped sexual views.
A lot of it seems totally unnatural.
From what I gather, it was due to misinterpretations of words like 'pornea' in old scriptures and the word 'fornication'.
When I read about this, it made a lot of sense.
You can check out this site:
http://www.libchrist.com/bible/catholiccelibacy.htmlAnyways...I think some of the stuff on the site mentioned is pretty gross like swinger clubs and stuff, but their discussion on the Bible and sex seems to explain a lot (at least in my mind)