text: I am curious, how exactly is a single, celibate, male of any persuasion able to relate as a kind of marriage counselor than anyone else who has to examine the institution of marriage from the outside?  
  
  As for "practicing falsehood," the gay priest has to pretend to be something he's not because the organization insists he do so. Of course, that opens up a whole other can of personal and institutional worms (...Cardinal O'Brien, anyone?)