Scroll down through the list at the bottom of the web page below. Examine their faces, and their crimes.
Read their faces. They were rarely gay. They were afraid of women. Like a lot of you on here. There's a big difference.
And then read the stories alongside to understand the interplay of the power and authority they were given, and expectations of "respectability", alongside the wretched institutional demands of celibacy etc.
Picture the places where they found their victims. The industrial schools, similar institutions, and Christian Brother schools.
Picture the surveillance and rules. The nature of those rules. Endless rules. The harshness. The removal of all agency from the boys. Often, the severing of contact with family or the manipulation of same, or the preying on those vulnerable or from difficult homes.
I don't know if you ever encountered the atmosphere of authority and obedience that underpinned the pre-Vatican Two system.
You were expected to obey, even if that be difficult and repugnant to your nature. There lay the root of the rot.
A system many of the usual suspects on here pine for to this day to their shame.
As for your protestations of just "ebophilia", well go down the above list again and read the entries very carefully. See the ages.
Finally do you actually know anything based in reality about the LGBT community beyond your own lurid imaginings?
Of course the answer is no.
But see where your sympathies lie. Actually these sympathies shine a damn good light on what you get so self righteously indignant about.
Wanker.
