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rilavallee: While your points are well taken, you are misrepresenting my position. I did not say that homosexual men were more likely than others to molest children. First of all, most of the victims of this vile behavior were not "children", but teenagers. We can quibble with the definitions, but it matters, clinically. Have you noticed that an overwhelming majority of victims were male? Until proven otherwise, I'll stick with the following:

In the last 50 years or so, a disproportionate number of Catholic seminarians have been closeted gay men who sought a quasi-spiritual sanctuary in the priesthood as a means of cleansing their souls. Some of these men preyed on emotionally vulnerable teenage boys and young seminarians. That makes them sexual predators, not pedophiles. As I look back on my years at an all-male Catholic high school, there was never a whiff of any of this. Perhaps the Brothers we had in school did not attract gay men. Or maybe we lacked 'vulnerable' boys who would never have put up with any deviancy, Either way, if you conduct a deeper and uncomfortable analysis, I maintain that you will find a disproportionate number of closeted gay men in the seminary, and eventually in the priesthood. It might take a few generations to clean it all up, And real, honest, transparent leadership would help.