The story may not contract you, but the therapist did (unfortunately, I can't give you a URL to that article due to a lack of a web site). Here - in the U.S. in some subcultures. Probably in other countries out several factors - that the people arrested for the abuses had for the most part become priests at a time when people entered siminaries at a much lower age than today. While he pointed out that a lot of them were gay, he also pointed out that they were subject to psychological abuse due to the Catholic guilt trips about love, and the repression warped a lot of them in various ways. This was probably harder on the gay priests since there was more on the guilt-trip agenda, but both straight and gay priests were harmed. I take it that you have trouble with the plural. :-) Read what I posted (which BTW was what the same therapist had said). That is shear nonsense: there is no "spector" of love hanging over the heads of straight people. Signing up as a priest,however is-was an easy way out for a gay kid being pressured to date girls. If being a priest was "really valued", that simply makes it a more effective way out, since the kid's decision wouldn't be questioned. I'm really not sure why you have a problem with this. Is it really surprising that social pressure resulted in a lot of gay priests (who were simply trying to get out of a bad situation and ended up jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire)?
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