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.

Love it. I wish I was that articulate.

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.

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?

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

Down goes Perry! Down goes Perry!