Controversial poll

[PsaltiChrysostom]

One other thing to consider, is that Latin Rite bishops have not been friendly towards married priests, even Eastern Catholic ones. In fact, this attitude created the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese under the Greek Orthodox Church in America, led by Metropolitan Gregory.

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Oppression of the Eastern Catholics of the Byzantine Rite by the bishops of the predominant Latin Rite Catholics, especially regarding a married priesthood and the form of the Divine Liturgy or Mass, led some of them out of Catholicism and into the Eastern Orthodox Church. A particularly strident opponent of non-Latin practices was John Ireland the Archbishop of St. Paul, Minnesota from 1888–1918, who refused to permit Eastern Catholic clergy to function in his archdiocese.[5]​

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The diocese was founded in 1938 when a group of 37 Ruthenian Eastern Catholic parishes, under the leadership of Fr. Orestes Chornock, were received into the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The year before, this group had officially renounced the Unia with the Holy See, primarily in protest over the Liturgical Latinisation occurring in their church life. A particularly divisive issue was the 1929 papal decree Cum data fuerit issued by Pope Pius XI which mandated that Eastern Rite clergy in the US were to be celibate.[6][7][8]​

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[zippy2006]

As an ex-Protestant I'm mindful of the fact the Protestants have very successfully run their churches with married pastors for 500 years.

If the Catholic Church is really fair dinkum about wanting to reunify with the Protestants, that's one compromise they are going to have to make. Full stop.

Protestants do not have any priests at all, married or otherwise, according to Catholics (and Orthodox and Orientals and etc.).

 

[Joined2krist]

Luke 14:33

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​ In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples. Jesus values celibacy in his disciples.

 

[Bob Crowley]

The most outstanding religious figure I've met was a married Protestant pastor with five sons.

 

[WarriorAngel]

I’d be alright with married priests. We already have a few. I’m not all that enamored with the idea of a female priesthood.

Females do not teach because Eve's teaching lead us all astray and here we are.

That said: Jesus appointed men by choice. He does not care for human societal changes. he is unchanging. So is His Bride, His Church.

 

[WarriorAngel]

Luke 14:33

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​ In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples. Jesus values celibacy in his disciples.

According to the times when abuses were rampant in the Church, St Gregory the Great made choice that Roman subject priests could not be married and through out the Church in every Rite, Bishops must be unmarried.

The East still marries. It's not a strict adherence as though an absolute unchanging law.
It's an adherence by vows for the work but it's not a moral law.