Catholic League’s Bill Donohue has argued on October 2 against the claim that “homophobia” in the Catholic Church accounts for the sexual abuse of minors. “Why didn’t the scandal take place in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s?” he asks: “Precisely because of the reigning ethic of sexual reticence. It is when the lid came off [after Second Vatican Council] that the rate of sexual abuse soared.” Donohue argues that, the more tolerant the Church became of homosexuality, the more homosexual priests began preying on young men.