Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
There's a whole theory of this, something like the "shield of virtue," or some such formulation, about how people who harbor "shame" behaviors can make up for it by posting more and more aggressively as the virtuous. My Google-fu is failing me, though, and I can't locate either a summary of the theory or the name of the author. Shame on me.
Partly true.

Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
I imagine that a fair number of former alcoholics who preach about avoiding alcohol, end up drinking again. We don't really charge them with hypocrisy though--it doesn't make much sense to criticize someone who knows what is right, and preaches what is right, but has trouble doing it because it's hard.

The difference is, they are correct that being an alcoholic is a bad thing, and the priests are wrong.
Also partly true. These men believe being homosexual is wrong, and just like any other addict they try to "get clean" and then help others.

This is not to say, of course, that some of them aren't haters as well; and generally quite vile.