I am a conservative Catholic, but let me just say, respectively, your all missing the point. To be a Catholic priest in the Latin Church requires a celibate man to dedicate himself to chastity for life. Forbidding men who have homosexual attractions (that may or may not have acted upon them before given themselves to God) seems hypocritical. If a man has had relations with a woman (outside of marriage) before being ordained he wouldn’t be banned from ordination. Such an immoral sexual act is also very sinful. We have countless Saints in our Church’s history who have had rather scandalous lives; murderers, prostitutes, persecutors of the faith, you name it. To say that this sin is more terrible than taking a life or selling ones body for sex is ridiculous. If one experiences a conversion of the heart to our Lord than all bets are off the table. Gay men are everywhere, the clergy, the government, and more than likely the Communion of Saints. Those who prey upon our children abusing positions of the cloth no doubt commit heinous crimes, but such a crime is not the inclination of every homosexual. Why is it odd to think a gay man would find a “barely legal” boy to be attractive when we see commercials with Senator Dole drooling over a barely legal Brittany Spears, or grown men telling their son’s how hot a high school cheerleader is? We have seen recent cases of woman preying upon minors, fathers who abuse their own daughters, and so on. Shall we take one class of sinners and place the scapegoat of such scandals on a whole community? A great mistake this would be indeed. Our Dear Lord warned us about judgment, the majority should be cautious in their supposed piety!
"Forbidding men who have homosexual attractions (that may or may not have acted upon them before given themselves to God) seems hypocritical."
It's not. A man who suffers from same-sex attraction disorder is not competent to be a priest, nor is he suitable.
"but such a crime is not the inclination of every homosexual."
Actually, it is. Attraction to youth is one of the defining symptoms of SSAD.
"Shall we take one class of sinners and place the scapegoat of such scandals on a whole community?"
People who don't suffer from psychosexual disorders are capable of repenting and remaining chaste or celibate. Men who suffer from same-sex attraction disorder are not. It's not really their fault; they just can't.
There's no "scapegoating" going on. The simple fact is that mental disorders result in disordered thinking and disordered behavior, and such a man is not suitable for the priesthood until and unless he gets treatment and is cured of his disorder.
SSAD is curable, you know.