Over 60 years ago, when more than half of Catholic clergy were still heterosexually oriented, if a man in priestly formation left the seminary, or if a priest left the priesthood, it ordinarily was to marry. The decline in heterosexuals entering seminaries, the closure of most high school seminaries, and the increase in priests leaving ministry were prompted, in great part, by the sexual revolution of the 1960s. To make up for the loss of seminarians and priests, the Church, like happens in the military when fewer men and women are enlisting, lowered its standards and began accepting homosexuals who today make up the majority of Catholic bishops, priests, and seminarians outside of Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia like India.
Today, with so very few straight men in formation, the main reason for someone leaving the seminary is not to marry. The main reason heterosexual men voluntarily, or involuntarily, leave formation today is because of the homosexual cultures that exist in most seminaries in the Americas and Europe. Homosexual vocation directors who recruit other homosexuals, and homosexual seminary rectors who weed out heterosexuals who do not accept homosexual relationships and behavior, appear to have convinced lay Catholics that it doesn’t matter if a seminarian or priest is straight or gay, as long as he supposedly lives a celibate life. The truth is that there are many problems involved with that argument.
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Unlike “chastity,” which means abstaining from sexual relations outside of marriage, “celibacy” technically means not being [heterosexually] married. It’s interesting how many gay priests do not believe they are violating their promise of celibacy by engaging in gay sex because, technically, they are not marrying their sex partner(s).
When a straight man is ordained and promises “celibacy” or vows “chastity,” he is not just foregoing having sex, but he is also sacrificing having a wife and children, which marriage is really all about. Because a gay seminarian is psychologically incapable of loving a woman and being “married” (as defined by the Catholic Church), promising celibacy is like saying he is giving up smoking for Lent when he has never smoked.
Aware of how the careers of priests like Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill have been destroyed after they got caught using gay hook-up Apps like Grindr, most gay seminarians are advised to lead closeted lives and never reveal the fact that they are homosexually oriented, or that they may have been sexually active before or even during their time in the seminary.
Countless straight men have decided not to study for the priesthood or have left formation, not because they felt they could not lead celibate lives, but because they didn’t want to work for or with closeted gay clerics whose motives for being ordained they seriously questioned.
Because most studies and news reports about seminarians and newly ordained priests do not address the issue of sexual orientation, most people are unaware of how many straight men were unjustly dismissed for reporting sexual predation or homosexual misconduct in their seminaries.
Catholics who don’t object to the acceptance and ordination of homosexuals fail to realize that just as straight men do not go to gay bars, so too have countless straight men voluntarily left formation after they discovered how the priesthood has evolved into a fraternal organization composed mainly of gay men, many of whom are sexually active and who do not view their sexual behavior as a violation of “celibacy.”
On Saturday, May 23, 2026, Bishop Joseph Brennan will ordain Scott Vicent Borba a priest for the Diocese of Fresno. It was reported, “In 2020, Scott [Vincent Borba] joined PFLAG online and for the first time, in a Zoom chat, told a room of strangers that he is gay. This was a ‘Wow’.” PFLAG is an LGBTQ advocacy organization founded and led by friends and family of LGBTQ people.
Writing in The Catholic Herald, Jacqueline O’Hara reported that “Borba’s company, e.l.f. Cosmetics, has come under fire for promoting transgender models, the LGBTQ agenda, and abortion.” O’Hara also wrote, “If Borba is yet another far-Left activist whose celebrity will lead Catholic faithful astray: think Fr James Martin.”
Mainstream and Catholic media sources like EWTN, which made no mention of Borga’s sexual orientation or his company’s support of behavior deemed sinful by the Catholic Church, have literally “canonized” him based on a somewhat materialistic interpretation of his transition from billionaire executive to parish priest. It is not surprising that these same media outlets failed to note that Borga is being ordained for the far-Left Diocese of Fresno, which is currently facing bankruptcy after 153 claims of clergy sex abuse, the majority of which involve the clerical homosexual predation of young men.
Just because a person is homosexual does not mean that he is currently sexually active with other men or poses a threat to teenage boys who are often victims of clerical homosexual predation. However, how does one justify the ordination of men perceived to be homosexuals like Borba while heterosexuals like Anthony Gorgia and other straight seminarians were not ordained because they posed a threat to outing sexually active gay bishops and priests?
As bishops like Brennan continue ordaining more and more homosexuals, fewer and fewer heterosexuals will study for the priesthood and be ordained. Catholics should not complain about their churches being consolidated or closed due to a shortage of priests when they fail to acknowledge that straight men don’t want to work in an institution in which most of the bishops and priests are predominantly gay.
When one goes to Facebook and types in the search box “Scott Vincent Borba,” one encounters an extraordinary number of posts praising Borba for giving away the fortune he made in the cosmetic industry to become a priest. Might Borba prove to be a very dedicated and holy priest? If it is true that he is a homosexual, might he find living in the closet of the sacristy to be too lonely and leave later to marry another man? It’s impossible to say at this time.
The point of this article is not to question the orientation, motives, or qualifications of Scott Vincent Borga. The point of the article is that: 1) Clerical sex abuse is documented to be linked to a disproportionate number of homosexual clergy and the manifestation of a “homosexual subculture” in seminaries; and 2) The acceptance and ordination of homosexuals has had a very negative impact on the recruitment and retention of straight seminarians and priests.
The video, “Who Will Save Our Seminarians,” provides a plethora of evidence showing that countless straight men like Anthony Gorgia, Karl Discher, and others were unjustly dismissed from seminaries by priests like Fathers Peter Harman, Adam Park, and Carter Griffin because they refused to be silent about sexual predation and homosexual misconduct that they experienced or witnessed.
Anyone who knows the joys of being a mother or father might agree that a straight candidate like Gorgia, who was prepared to give up having a wife and children to follow Christ, would have been making a far greater sacrifice than a seminarian like Borga, perceived to be homosexual, who is being celebrated in the media for giving up billions of dollars to become a priest.