Exactly, and Bishop Galante said the same thing above.
Gay or straight, if a priest can't abide celibacy he should leave the priesthood.
If a priest CAN be celibate, then who would know or care what his orientation is?
Because it has nothing to do with the actual act, it has to do with the condition of one's heart. It is such a perverted thing for someone who supposedly believes in Christ to be leading people and instructing them on Christ's teaching to pervert the scriptural passages for their own justifications...DEBASED SELFISHNESS
BTW, No different for adulturer's or child molester's.
A minority of priests (homosexuals) brought about over 95% of the molestations against teenage boys. Clearly, homosexual men (and priests) are much, much more likely to involve themselves sexually with teenagers than are heterosexual men. Most parents I know will NEVER let their sons be alone with a priest anywhere, and for good reason. We have several thousand reasons (homosexual molestations)to not trust priests with our sons. Further, most of the homosexual priests are sexually active. Who trusts a priest who can't keep his vows, and who actively sins? The Catholic Church has to decide - a queerized Church, vs. one in which people can trust their priests around their kids.
Being gay requires demonstration of some sort; either an announcement or a witnessed act. Absent an act, how are we to believe that a priest is gay or simply sad?
In my opinion, it boils down to the priest's opinion about his own sexuality. If the priest has gay inclinations but professes that such activity is immoral according to church doctrine, then I see no great problem.
BUT...in my experience, most of the gay priests are flaming liberals who, aside from being gay, do not believe that such a lifestyle is sinful. Thus, they are playing a dishonest game. They are (even when not practicing) attempting to hide behind tolerance to change church doctrine.
Its a question of priority....is the priest a believing catholic who happens to be gay (and who commits his life to spreading the church's doctrines of morality)....or is he a liberal who is attempting to alter the church's doctrines to suit his liberal philosophy? Is he more concerned with spreading catholocism to the world...or liberalism in the church? That is the question.
If I had my way, I'd prefer that the church ONLY ordain priests who are in a heterosexual marriage...thus by and large rendering this point moot (in ancient Judaism, one had to be married before one could be a rabbi).
At the time, I warned the libs not to get too cocky, as this whole affair could well blow backwards against the gays in the church and their liberal apologists. Lo and behold, that seems to becoming true. The laity is angry and afraid....they see church doctrine being openly flouted by gay priests, and are seeing the top management covering for them. They are afraid for their kids, and are baying for blood.
Since I believe that gays (esp liberal ones) who join the priesthood are entering their post under false pretenses, I have little sympathy for their situation now. If they were gay, and had a sincere belief that it is merely an "alternative lifestyle"...then they had no business joining the priesthood to begin with.