There was a belief that as long as you were a "celibate" sodomite that it was ok for you to be allowed to be a priest.
It was just the action that was sinful.
The problem is that the mind set leads to the sin.
“There was a belief that as long as you were a “celibate” sodomite that it was ok for you to be allowed to be a priest.”
The Lavender Mafia did spread that, but it was never part of the Catholic Church. Not canon law, not the Catechism, not dogma, not Scripture. Just part of the attack.