Blame-the-Gays Game in U.S. Catholicism and What Rhetoric of Moral Decay Is Really About: Who Gets Blamed and Who Gets Mulligans

Things I'm reading lately that, to my way of thinking, belong together:

James Alison, "Gay priests are 'caught in a trap of dishonesty'": 

In the previous round of the blame-the-gays game, from 2002 on, much was made of the supposed culpability of liberal Vatican II bishops such as Rembert ...