Ex-priests is the point here.   Since when has the teachings and doctrines of the Catholic faith relied on public opinion?  Some say it's influences may have crept in following the disaster of the "Spirit" of Vatican II, but all the falsehoods of same will be overturned, hopefully in the very near future. Personally I blame some of the large gay-priesthood,(those not chaste) as you put it,  for the issues we are currently facing in the Church today.  A priest living a sinful life needs our prayers. This was a main point of the messages of Our Blessed Mother at Fatima.