I mean let's cut to the chase here: Priests are expected to give up sexuality en toto, so what's the significance here?
I suspect it's to support the Church's belief/teaching that homosexuality is a sin and hence a priest who is by definition in violoation of this cannot be ordained. I'm not saying I fully understand, but this is my guess.
The significance is to get rid of the faggies. All of them. Right now.
If all things are equal, as you seem to think, then someone attracted to children is also equally qualified. Would you agree with that?
The significance is this: Placing men who tend toward other men as their sexual objects--placed in a situation like a seminary or a rectory--are being put into situations that provide an unbearable amount of temptation for THEM, and if they are subsequently ordained with those tendencies still intact, they are then put into a position where they will be distracted from their duties by their temptations (for one thing) and provided with a situation of further temptation and danger regarding the teenaged boys in any parish where they might be placed.
Putting homosexual priests into pencil-pushing jobs in the Chancery offices might be a partial solution and remove them from the temptation of parish/school life, but then the the problem becomes one of having ordained priests in jobs where they don't need priestly faculties. Why bother? Ordaining men with homosexual tendencies is a self-defeating practice. Amchurch's chickens are now coming home to roost. Their Great Experiment has failed miserably.
The distinction is this:
Homosexuality is a Grave Disorder.
It is NOT a disorder to be attracted to women (if you are a man,) nor men (if you are a woman.)
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Homosexuality is a pathology. They have severe emotional problems......