Part 2
On the other hand, your attempt to attribute the clerical sex abuse scandal to the phenomenon of gay priests is spurious, IMHO. The fact that most of the victims are male, which appears to be your essential evidence, is just not relevant. Frequently sex abusers, straight or gay, are essentially sexually underdeveloped, sexually immature, even to the point if some cases of not having yet figured out with clarity their own sexual orientation. Sadly, pubescent boys are simply the most readily available objects for their immaturity to express itself. Also, given that at least 50% of our clergy are gay, as I have suggested, we would expect 50% of sex abusers to be gay IF THERE IS NO CORRELATION BETWEEN SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND SEX ABUSE. Since the population at large assumes far fewer priests are gay, its not hard to see how the delusion associating gays and sex abuse can arise--anecdotal impressions regularly mislead us.