A celibacy requirement is an obvious filter against men who marry and in favor of men who don’t (homosexuals). It doesn’t directly cause homosexual child molestation, but it serves to bring in more homosexuals, some of whom are child molesters / pederasts.
1. Many lifelong, multiple molesters are married men (e.g. Alfred Kinsey, Jerry Sandusky);
2. The Catholic clergy are no more likely to be molesters, than the clergy of any other church.
The total amount of pedophilia + ephebophilia in the Catholic Clergy amounts to less than 2 percent — comparable to the rate among married men. This was the research finding of Pennsylvania State University Prof. Philip Jenkins, eminent religion and history scholar, and a non-Catholic who’s studied the church’s abuse problems for 20 years.
Jenkins said there has been no formal study comparing denominations for rates of child abuse. However, insurers have been assessing the risks since they began offering riders on liability policies in the 1980s. Two of the largest insurers report no higher risks in covering Catholic churches than Protestant denominations (Jenkins, Pedophiles and Priests).
The idea that celibacy results in sexual abuse, has been debunked time and time again.
It may, however, explain some people's motivation in tirelessly trumpeting every allegation, proven or unproven, made about Catholic clergy, while maintaining a tight-lipped silence about every other category of clergy offender.