Doesn’t required celibacy mean you will get more repressed homosexuals as well as other groups that are trying to repress something in their id framework applying for the priesthood?
Hardly. While any sexual sin is sin, it is much less prevelant than in society in general. Why would homosexual men intentionally enter the priesthood in droves when they can just stay in society and actually have sex?
This arguement has always seemed so silly to me. While any priests sexually molesting children is wrong and should be punished severely, let me remind folks of this fact. molesting priests, less than 1 percent. molestors in the general population, 8 percent. Most molesters are married men, and much of the abuse done is to their own children.
Statistics just don’t point toward men entering the priesthood to have sex with other men. They ususally go to San Fransico for that.