It seems to me that the Greens where trying to have an honest discussion on the subject. A discussion made in public arena. At a time that we all agree it was fluid.

Catholic priests were doing things in the hide, going against their own supposed morality about sex. Doing it against targets at their weakest: not only children, but children with a disrupted family background where the family would not complain.

I particularly dislike DCB (I could go on and rant about his pseudo-cosmopolitan pseudo-green view of the world - but that would be off-topic), furthermore I agree with your view on the subject at hand about children protection. But I would be inclined to give DCB a pass here: He was having (and the "greens") an honest public discussion about the subject, at a time where that discussion was understandable. This is a completely different affair of abusing, in the hidden, of children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

I do not think your comparison is fair.