Let’s pretend we’re evil, amoral cultural leaders who wear long white robes and are looked up to by millions. Thought experiment.

We know we have a vast, underpaid labor force kept sexless who, in anguished erotic experiments, are regularly making use of juvenile church staff. A problem we’re not necessarily looking to solve, since the underpaid labor force need some kind of outlet, obviously.

We also need the focal point of a sexual villain, because that’s just good for business once the woman-as-whore stuff is dying down.

The “homosexual” as a cultural myth is born.