I disagree with that poster on what he said about homosexuality being possibly evil in and of itself. That is completely wrong in Catholic teaching. We are all disordered in some way because of the fall of Adam. That’s why we all sin and that’s why grace came to the world. It is better to see our earthly condition as a broken or ill condition rather than an inherently “evil” one. That’s not true at all and is not Catholic. Sin is the only evil.
But it is not true that he has said rape is normal either, whether heterosexual or homosexual rape. You do yourself a disservice when you blatantly put horrible things into the mouths of others, create a major strawman and not a benign one either. He said heterosexuality was normal, not heterosexual rape.
You also have not presented any facts or counterfacts supporting your claim about opportunity having been unequal or skewered towards young men: you implied the predators had more access to boys than girls, these posters disagreed and suggested they had more access to girls. None of you have presented any evidence for your assumptions however.
Secondly, 2,500 out of 3,000 indicates something to me, given most were young men rather than children and given the smaller percentage of same-sex attracted individuals, even with the highest estimates of 40% among the priesthood.
It is significant especially given that the church has had a standard rule excluding from the priesthood people still experiencing strong same sex attraction tendencies, which was thwarted at about the same period/decades as all these ugly scandals were brewing under our noses and waiting to blow up in the 2000s.
Lastly, it is simply an inconvenient truth that the Catholic teaching on homosexuality is that it is gravely disordered. You can’t therefore be surprised that people then see this greatly disproportionate outcome in the nature and targets of the attacks, and make the connection to the church teaching on homosexuality and the rule to not admit to seminaries people who suffered from it until they had greatly overcome it.
Your entire approach is based on your clear belief that homosexuality is perfectly normal, on par with heterosexuality, which of course is contrary to Catholic belief. These two different assumptions will frame how you and “the conservatives” approach the data coming out of these investigations.
You will continue to be exasperated because your position requires them to first adopt your basic epistemology on same sex attraction: that it is as normal and ordered as opposite sex attraction. That’s the fundamental disagreement here, so no use wasting time on the natural conclusions stemming from it.
