The "study after study shows that homosexuality is not a predictor of child molestation" line is the biggest deception underlying this entire issue. The root of this deception can be seen on page 36 of the referenced John Jay College study. Here is the game that is played to achieve the end goal of demonstrating that gay men are not disproportionately represented among child molesters: if the perpetrator refuses to identify himself as a homosexual, the crime is not labeled a case of homosexual molestation. Did you catch that? You have cases of men who penetrate boys, but many of them refuse to call themselves homosexual, therefore the crime stats get distorted because the molestation is counted as a heterosexual sexual crime. Just to be clear: if you penetrate little boys, you are a homosexual pedophile and your crime should be regarded as a homosexual incident, regardless how you choose to identify yourself. It's doubly remarkable in that the folks who propagate this deception would ordinarily be more than happy to defend the notion that gay folks, even in 2019, are apt to hide their sexuality, given the repercussions they may face.
It's an uncomfortable truth. For as long as time, there has been a proclivity among a large segment of gay men towards sex with boys. As late as the 1990s, the mainstream gay magazine, The Advocate, was still running classified ads in which gay men openly trolled for underage boys. It's always been widespread within that community and you can go online and find gay men who will openly discuss this large segment of the gay male population.
So, this author can attempt to blame the Catholic Church's stance on homosexuality for all of this, but fact is that if you have a lot of homosexual men acting as priests, you're going to have a disproportionate amount of child molestation of boys, as we see in the larger population, when you erase the creative counting method of calculating sexual crimes against children. In addition, pedophiles target professions where they'll have more victims from which to choose, like teaching, coaching, the priesthood. It's estimated that 5% of American males are gay. Do you believe that only 5% of the total number of child molestation cases involved adult males molesting boys?
The bit about gay priests being "traumatized" by the Church's age-old stance on homosexuality is just silly, but typical of these times. They chose the priesthood. They understood the dogma. They clearly don't understand what "trauma" entails.