Well, there's a difference here. Homo boy scout leaders gravitate to the boy scouts because they're pedophile homos and that's where the boys are. Priests who are involved in this present scandal (which is to say not the vast majority of priests) prey on little boys because that's what they have access to. If there were such a thing as altar girls they would be targets too.
The issue of celibacy is a difficult one. One thing people have to remember is that priests are human beings just like the rest of us and as such are subjected to the same biological inclinations as we all are. Today's priests grew up in the same setting we did, with rampant and easily obtainable pornography and sex fired at them 24/7 from the TV set. They did not grow up in some medieval setting where they were trained as youngsters to be celibate. Are we to expect today's priest to suddenly change and shrug off all of his natural inclinations when he dons the mantle? In my opinion, this is expecting too much from today's young man who aspires to the priesthood.
I'm not Catholic, but I'm married to one. In my opinion, priests should be allowed to marry; at least then when a priest is conducting pre-marital councilling (which I was compelled to attend in order to be married in the church), he would know something about the subject he was lecturing on......
A vast majority of the priests involved have chosen to assault teenaged boys. The pedophiles are a very small percentage of the total.
There ARE altar girls in many liberal parishes. It doesn't have even the slightest bearing on sexual assaults on teenaged boys, some as old as 16.