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Everybody is prone to sins and misconducts, me, you and priests too.
Sinners die and rot too.
Should the people actively preaching against sin, supposedly following religious best practices, actively steeling themselves against sin not be substantially less likely to ever engage in such misconduct?
You're not actually making a point here, you're putting the very real threat of abuse by religious officials using their power in religious institutions as a means to groom children on the same level as the average person.
Ideally, yes. They should.
But one of the issue of extreme morality like these is that deep down, everyone crave basic human desires. Reproduction/sexuality being one of them, and priests usually have oaths to fulfill.
And when you suppress these craving for too long, I believe they turn into weird, dark and repressed fantasies. Priests grooming children is one of them.
Suppressing them.
Your entire argument here is around discouraging sexual promiscuity (which is exclusively being advocated for specifically with consenting adults) and yet you also argue that a lack of reproduction/sex directly leads to grooming.
You can't have both sides.
On top of that, many aspects about the church can lead to grooming that aren't sexual repression, namely the power dynamics of religious officials, and the idea that those who are religious are more inherently "ethical" or "good" than others, and are thus less likely to do wrong.