This has been one of the religious aspects that has bugged me for years. Why is it a problem if Jesus was married? Who cares? In fact, I read an article somewhere that for his time period, it would be unusual if he WASN'T married. And that would have been remarked upon.
The GMA/Yahoo! article I linked to above says that priests are celibate because Jesus wasn't married. I always thought it was because Paul said that priests should be celibate. Which is why celibacy never made any sense to me. But I digress. . . I was brought up Christian, and even went to Catholic school for a while. But somehow, some of the major tenets of the faith just didn't make it into my brain correctly. I'm not sure why.
