Should polls @ GMA be allowed to be so biased?

Reader Ann notified me of a poll on priestly celibacy residing in the article "Should Catholic Priests Be Allowed to Marry?" over at ABC News, and I think Good Morning America has picked it up.

The kicker? This is how the poll is worded:

Pope Benedict XVI has called for a meeting this week in the Vatican to consider whether the vows of celibacy and the ban on marriage for priests who are married or want to be married should be overturned.

Should Catholic priests be allowed to marry?

Yes. It is unfair to prevent them from experiencing one of life's joys: companionship.

No. The vows are founded in religious doctrine and tradition and should not be changed.

I'm not sure.

"It is unfair to prevent them from experiencing one of life's joys: companionship." Grr, bad church, bad! Depriving those poor men of companionship - one of life's joys, don't ya know?! With polls like these, who needs results? The choice is clear!

A little quote from later in the article:

"As foreign as the concept may seem today, the first pope, St. Peter, was married. "

More foolery:

"A married Italian priest will hold a prayer vigil in St. Peter's Square tonight, hoping to influence Pope Benedict, who will hold what amounts to a cabinet-level meeting to reflect on the crisis Thursday. "

"... But Pope Benedict, a stalwart conservative, is unlikely to relax a rule that has been in place nearly 1,000 years."

On the one-hand, the reporter is savvy enough about the ecclesiological structure of the Catholic Church to confidently claim that a curia meeting is equivalent to a "cabinet-level meeting", but on the other hand, the voice voiceover reporter says on the video:

"[married priests] say that marriage is a sacrament, and that is a a higher calling than celibacy."

I'm not sure where that quote originated, but wherever it came from - *wow*. Who exactly didn't know that holy orders is a sacrament? I doubt it was the married priests. So, did they withold that detail from the reporter? Did the reporter fabricate it? Either way, the reporter doesn't have the first hint about what she is discussing. For instance: "for priests in the Catholic Church, abstinence is next to Godliness..." Spare me.

The video also includes the obligatory quote from a married priest claiming that a married priesthood would have prevented the clergy-abuse scandal.

Be prepared for many more MSM articles this week claiming that the Church is looking to revise its traditional teaching on celibate priests. Don't they recognize a sailed boat when they've seen one?