<i>have lived the life of denial and repression as the Church expects them to, and the resulting depression, addictions, and suicidal thinking</i>
The big mistake here is that you assume that the 'repression' caused the depression, suicidality, and addictions.  In fact, it is more plauible to conclude that male homosexuality is one part of a syndrome that includes these other conditions.  (This is not to imply there is a single entity of 'male homosexuality', any more than there is one entity of depression or one entity of schizophrenia.  We lump things together because of surface similarities, even when the pathogenesis differs markedly.)

<i>highly rigid and disturbed candidates</i>  I presume you mean people whose opinions and beliefs you disagree with?  Why not just say so?

The church would do well to lose 50% (or more) of its current priests and retain those who actually live and preach a life of virtue in the increasingly decadent world which the secular West has become.