re: #40 lostlakehiker

That’s a matter of definition, and of statistics. All the priests are men. To whatever extent they’re molesting boys, it’s homosexual, and when the victims are girls, it’s heterosexual. That’s what the words mean.

So now we come to the statistics. What fraction of the whole population of priests in those dioceses are homosexual? What fraction of the victims are boys? The numbers have to be run before anything accurate can be said. I don’t think we have the numbers, to know whether in this setting, it’s correlated or not.

There’s a thing we like to call jail gay, homosexuality in the real world, _{(where people get to do and say as they like without the specter of institutional religious hierarchy arbitrarily dictating their human contact)} and homosexuality if you’re a purportedly celibate priest bereft of actual intimacy with adults and surrounded by young boys you have a lot of access to?

Those two are a long ways way from each other