Disclaimer: Unitarian who respects all belief systems.

I'm not sure of your premise that allowing priests to marry would reduce pedophilia. I believe transparency and accountability (i.e. punishment) would help. I don't think pedophilia is caused by celibacy, but by fundamental pedophilia (whatever causes that).

I do believe that the church loses a great number of potentially good priests by demanding celibacy. How many people with a calling don't follow it because of the demand for celibacy?

Down goes Perry! Down goes Perry!

Did some consumer-psychologist find that it is the optimal length of an article based on the shrinking American attention span?

Back in my days in business (middle management), my continued employment depended on ever-increasing sales and ever-decreasing costs. I was directed to keep people under 28 hours/week (IIRC) to avoid them being eligible for benefits. Front line staff worked hard physically, with very little hope of advancement. Basically, I had to elevate myself by climbing on those working for me. I couldn't do it anymore, but plenty of people can and do.

Companies/corporations care only about profit. People are tools for making profit. There are, of course, exceptions, but I believe that the corporate push for ever-greater profits is crushing the working class.

Oh, and corporations are people now, capable of buying much more political power in a day than I could build up in a lifetime.

Love it. I wish I was that articulate.

I'm 10 days shy of my 4th Reddit birthday. Not much karma, because I usually just read and then follow interesting links.

It's getting to where you have to wade through a lot of crap to find something interest there. I'll still go there, but I wanted to see what this is all about.