It sounds like the gay community is handling this in an assembly-line fashion (deny, lie, present cooked statistics, then track the response). They are treating this like any other attack on homosexuals. Note that their pre-fabricated response does not include any concern for the victims of the abuse or the way that this is affecting the authority of the Church or religion in general.
< sarcasm>Remember, homosexuals NEVER do anything wrong < /sarcasm>