I've just been waiting to get to the end of this thread, reading through it all, to say something and I get here on the last page and, dammit, 9-10ths Penguin already snuck it in.
Really though, this whole things just sounds stupid to me. You know how many homosexuals have sex with someone of the opposite sex before they come out as gay? It doesn't mean they are heterosexual during that time, nor does it mean that they are definitely bisexual the moment they admit their orientation to the same sex either.
Orientation has to do with who you are attracted to on many levels. Not just sexually, but emotionally and more. We're talking about "clicking" with another person. If a man who is heterosexual, has a wife and kids, has always been attracted to women in his life, numerous relationships with women, never been involved with men and men draw no allure for him, ...ends up having sex with another man in prison during some long stint or something...doesn't mean he's suddenly gay or always has been. May just mean he's disturbed and desperate. He may never have imagined what he's just done, he may always be haunted by it. It may be one of those things that he may never want to think about again in his life. But the act itself doesn't make him a homosexual any more than a gay man sleeping with a "girlfriend" at 16y/o made him a heterosexual.
Now, as to pedophilia, there are those in psychological fields that actually contend that it, itself, is an orientation of sorts, separate of hetero or homosexuality. That it is driven more on the age of the child, rather than on the gender. So, it isn't that the person perpetrating the act against the victim is homosexual or heterosexual as much as they are looking for a particular age and the sex of the child happens just to be what it is.
That said, when you are looking at things in a church, now think for a moment, do you have more male priests or female? Do you have more male altar boys or female? On the chances you are going to get a pedophile in the ranks, it just stands to reason that the sex of the most available child is going to be male while the perpetrator is going to be...male.
Now, perhaps there is some draw for some of these guys to go into the church because they do feel "different". Perhaps they do think that by going to "God" that they will be closer to "Him" and "He" will take away these feelings and urges or whatever they are dealing with. Obviously...it doesn't seem to work for some of them huh?
Though, either way, whether you view it from the first perspective of a same sex act itself doesn't make a person a homosexual, or the second where pedophilia may be it's very own thing, it really doesn't necessarily make the perpetrator gay if it is a man who touches a boy.
