Father Alberto Cutie, the Miami priest at the center of a scandal after a set of steamy pictures of him surfaced in tabloids, said he is quitting the Roman Catholic Church to join the Episcopal Church, which allows their priests to marry.

After the tabloid pictures, showing the supposedly-celibate man of God's beach capers with beauty Ruhama Canellis, cost him his job with Miami Beach church St. Francis de Sales, the 40-year-old said of his supposed celibacy: "I didn't stop being a man just because I put on a cassock. There are trousers under this cassock."

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