And if, by contrast, you have a profession that expects, as its norm, that a man is to be in a stable married relationship with a woman *before* entering it (as with the Orthodox priesthood), that you will have fewer homosexuals?
Certainly! What chace is there that a homosexual will marry a woman just so he can become a priest? But, at the same time, Agrarian, we must keep in mind that pederasty is not limited only to homosexuals and that heterosexuals commit child rapes as well. However, the preponderance of such acts among homosexuals may suggest the preponderance of their disturbed choices and an increased incidence of them where there is an increased proportion of them in a given group.
I agree, and I should have made that point clear in my post. I don't think that the evidence is in that homosexuals are any more likely to commit genuine pederasty (i.e. molesting small boys and girls) than are heterosexuals. So eliminating celibacy wouldn't solve that problem at all, in my opinion.
But these true child-molestation cases seem to make up a very small number of the problems that the modern Roman Catholics are dealing with in their parishes. That was the main thing I was trying to get across.