Why would any rational heterosexual man want to join a group that does not allow marriage to a woman?
By doing so it pushes away the heteros and invites the homos!
This problem of older gay men exploiting adolescents and boys for sexual purposes has nothing inherently to do with celibacy, but I think it is strong connected to the "therapeutic culture" that invaded all our institutions, including ALL churches, especially in the 60's and 70's. "Caring" institution especially came to see such moral failures not as crimes and sins, but as manifestations of psychological difference.
Not only did church people start going strong on "understanding" and weak on internal discipline, but there were many others --- police, prosecutors, judges, educators, counselors, therapists, journalists, ordinary citizens --- who knew about these criminal offenses and did not stop them.
That's a big reason why pedophiles were (and are) drawn to professions like teacher, camp counselor, youth director, coach, clergy, etc: they know they will have lots of contact with the young, and they know that the "caring people" around them are likely to take a point of view that will look the other way and minimize their moral trespasses.
Plus, there are several reasons why the Catholic Church was singled out when many other far more deeply implicated institutions (public schools, etc.) escaped scrutiny altogether:
In the Bloggers & Personal forum, on a thread titled Sorry Cardinal Dolan, but your explanation doesnt make sense, Jack Hydrazine wrote:
Why would any rational heterosexual man want to join a group that does not allow marriage to a woman?
By doing so it pushes away the heteros and invites the homos!
Are you calling Jesus Christ a homo?