I’m not persuaded of the decline. Without extensive follow-up, it could be just a reporting time lag. If the numbers of child victims has, indeed fallen, I think it’s because the sodomites have become careful to restrict their activities to 18+ year-old victims, and to each other.
In any event, I don’t think the number of homosexual priests has declined a lot. I used to think that the homosexuals were being screened out. But as I think of young priests I know, in light of the demon mccarrick, it seems that lots of sodomites are still getting through. We now see that even in the very conservative diocese of Lincoln, sodomites were favored right up through the episcopacy of conservative hero Bruskewitz.
I also know that homosexuals still find the priesthood attractive. My sons went to Catholic high school, graduating in 2012 and 2014, respectively. They both had both friends and young teachers who were admitted homosexuals who were thinking of entering the seminary.
Most folks don’t think chaste homosexual priests are a problem. And, if 3% of priests were homosexual, it wouldn’t present the structural and institutional problem it is now.
All the homosexual bishops and priests got together and decided to stick to adults across all of the US at the same time? I don’t buy it. I doubt it was any kind of discipline working from anyone, that seems outlandish to me. I think it was simply gay priests dying and not being replaced with gay men due to the broader culture accepting gays. I think this also coincides with, and probably contributed to, the priest shortage.
I also don’t think the instances of reported abuse rose out of nowhere, I think the victims of pre-50s abuse were either dead or probably much less likely to come forward, so it only looks like the abuse rose up from nothing and peaked in the late 70s. The sexual revolution could have had something to do with it also.
Whatever the cause of the apparent decline, there is no downside to bringing the issue of gay clergy into the light as much as possible.
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