priests and points

A classmate and I were talking today about priests today . She's orthodox Christian, and in her church, a man must be married before he can become a priest. They believe that a priest who has never had a family is not qualified to give family advice to his congregation. Nor can he really understand his role as "father" of the congregation. Also, they believe that celibacy would actually backfire because a man is unlikely to resist today's sexual temptations forever.

This makes more sense to me than Catholicism. It's hard for me to get serious about church again after the latest wave of molesation accusations. I realize that the issue concerns individual priests, but you can't compartmentalize the church from its ministers. Sometimes I think organized religion is not the only way to reach God, but that feels like a cop-out too. Look at me, thinking about religion again. Religion is so much more appealing to me when people aren't constantly telling me what to think.

On a unrelated note, Westlaw and LexisNexis are the two leading internet legal research companies who are in heavy competition for law students. They both give points for every time you research, and if I get 19,000 points on Westlaw, I get a mini Ipod. Need some legal research done? Ask me, and I'll let you listen to my Ipod in the next year or two.