Or of the churchs' share in them. In Protestant theological programmes for ordinands who may marry it can be expressed openly that marriage is a hindrance rather than a help and that the wife is expendable. Meanwhile Protestant sects are being asked to ordain practising homosexuals and to sanction marriages of same-sex couples. In religious communities, whose members make vows of chastity, sexuality has sometimes been misdirected towards non-consenting persons. Secular priests have also carried out such practices and been then protected by church hierarchies - but the victims are left to fend for themselves.
Every person is a 'holy place'.
Methodists have charitably decided to ordain homosexual ministers but with the wise stipulation that they not practice their homosexuality. Catholic Canon Law, based upon Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians 7.3-6, sees marriage vows as more binding and sacred than those of monastic chastity and likewise, from that text, mandates for both man and woman equal sexual rights within that marriage. Sexuality with love in a marriage of equals but opposites is sacred, indeed a Sacrament, for marriage is an Order. But where it is imposed upon another lovelessly, outside a marriage and as an act of power, in a hierarchy of rank or age, in whatever gender combination, it shatters the souls of both individuals and is profoundly selfish. It is particularly devastating where it is done by one who represents the teaching of God and whom the other is bound to respect and trust.