[ElPatriota]

Estimates of the numbers of gays in the priesthood vary from 25 percent to 50 percent. About one-third of the 42,500 U.S. priests are members of religious orders.

I can't dispute numbers... but I think is high. But of course for me 10% is HIGH!

the QUESTION IS WHY.........?

(a)Good access to children and boys? (b)Agenda?

Probably both!

[counterpunch]

I can't dispute numbers... but I think is high. But of course for me 10% is HIGH!
the QUESTION IS WHY.........?
(a)Good access to children and boys? (b)Agenda?
Probably both!

My theory is that as these deeply religious men began discovering their homosexual urges as adolescents, they denied and repressed their sexuality because they had been raised to believed that it was a sin. Their own personal guilt and shame forced them to seek redemption and purity by pursuing a pious, celibate life in the priesthood, which they most likely entered into earnestly.

But at some point their psychological dam would burst open -- perhaps due to the temptation they encounter from frequent unsupervised access to young boys with whom they are trusted -- exposing a man with the stunted sexuality of a gay adolescent. Being this was the age they suppressed their sexuality, shutting it off and freezing it in place, this is where they would resume from, identifying sexually with adolescent boys, just as they did when they first began to suppress their urges.