Padre Cutié Poll Reveals Catholics Are Over The Celibacy Thing, But Would People Support An Ugly Priest?

Four hundred Catholics in the Miami area were polled over the weekend about whether or not they agree with the Roman Catholic Church’s celibacy rule for priests and guess what? 74% think priests should be able to get their rocks off with another person. This is somewhat surprising considering most Catholics nowadays are old. And hispanic. But the paper says they polled both Latino and non-Latino Catholics in the Miami-Dade area. We wonder if a less attractive priest–like say the president of Paraguay–would have as much support. After all, Padre Alberto Cutié’s story, a handsome, young and charismatic priest falling in love with an equally young divorcee, has the makings of a Thornbirdsian television mini-series. And everyone loves to see a happy ending. 

That majority was even larger — 81 percent — when those polled were asked whether they thought priests and nuns should be able to marry because the “celibacy requirement for Catholic clergy is antiquated and no longer viable.”

So what were those last 7% holding out for? They wanted to be sure they weren’t supporting the gays? The people polled were also asked if the current scandal regarding Alberto Cutié, where photos of him making out with a woman were printed in gossip mag TvNotas, had left them with a less favorable image of the priest. 78% said they had a favorable impression. 10% said they had an unfavorable impression and 12% said “qué?”

Below is video proof of those Soddom and Gommorish Catholics down in Miami supporting the placing of hands in bathing suits by priests.