Rats!

The title of this post derives from our disappointment that WE didn't think of this.  Accordingly, from our "I wish I'd said that" Department, Elizabeth Scalia:

I have my own response to the “if only priests were not celibate” lecture but because it is a rather mean answer, I only use it if the lecturer has been rude about it. I ask them: was there a period in your life, where you were celibate, either because you hadn’t started having sex, or you had no one to have sex with?

When they say yes, I ask how they managed, during that time, to battle their instincts to go around sexually abusing adolescents.