Why do they insist on coming out? That in and of itself supports the Vatican's stance.
Fascinating little soliloquy.
How the mighty have fallen. The Jesuits were for centuries the strong right (!) arm of the Church's theology and made sure that it a) stayed that way, and b) taught it to the upcoming generations.
When the individuals self identify as gay or any other orientation, then they indeed provide all the support - and more - required for justification of the Vatican stance. They, above all, are supposed to be celibate and chaste. Vows before God and all that.
When well over 80 percent of all sexual contact with minors are male on male, and the homosexual makeup of the general populace is about 5% or thereabouts, and the homosexual makeup of the priesthood is still much less than half, this is a problem and a connection that it doesn't take a Holmes to figure out. Even a Clouseau could.
The seminaries are starting to fill again; the young priests and seminarians are sounding more and more like priests from the early part of last century - and the 60s era hippie-dips and neo Marxist revolutionaries are aging and being replaced. I just say Thank You, Lord for JPII and Benedict.
It's the Church of Christ, not Lenin and Mao.