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Stirnerism just collapses to Christianity when you consider that Christianity—and hence eternal paradise for the righteous—is true, and therefore the most beneficial action is that which is accordance with Christianity.

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>I doubt you could find five living bishops on the face of the planet that would agree with that.
So popularity and consensus are the arbiters of right and wrong?

Saint Paul, makes it abundantly clear that homosexual clergy is forbidden in the epistles to Timothy and to Titus.
>[1] A faithful saying: if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. [2] It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher, [3] Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but [4] One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all chastity. [5] But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?
>For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre: [8] But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent
The decline of the Church and the abuse scandal of today is the result of relaxed standards, and abandoning traditional doctrine in favor of platitudes and ambiguities.