Does it matter more if a priest cheats with man or woman?

Are there different degrees of significance when a priest breaks a vow of celibacy? That's the question being asked by USA Today.

In the latest scandal to hit the Catholic church, photos of Father Alberto Cutie were published in a tabloid showing him having a romantic seaside romp with a woman. Previously, Archbishop Rembert Weakland was forced to resign after it came to light that he paid $450,000 to a man he loved.

We have two cases here of breaking the celibacy vows: one cheating with men, another cheating with women.

Surely both are equivalent? Not if you're the Catholic church!

The church sees both as moral sins. However, homosexual behaviours are considered a break with natural law, because they "violate the true purpose of sexuality".

Despite this, the priesthood seems to have become a predominantly gay vocation. Estimates of gay priests in the U.S. vary from 25% to 50%.

Incidently, celibacy didn't become Church law until the Second Lateran Council in 1139AD, when every priest’s marriage was declared invalid and priests were ordered to separate from their wives. This was more about capitalism than spiritualism, since property that used to pass to the priest’s heirs became windfall church profits.

Link: The Pope and Gays