@Cryptic ”I was tempted to mentally shoot your theory down due an initial belief that it was centered on a belief that there would automatically be homosexual predators in a Catholic church.”
That’s a good one, Cryptic!
My reasons are usually:
A) there’s no evidence to assume such, and the assumptions are usually predicated upon “single young guy, no girlfriend’ with perhaps ‘it was <sometime before, say, the year 2000>’ sprinkled in, all of which are very shaky supports for the speculation to begin with
and
B) single young women before the 21st century don’t seem to get this sort of speculation about their sexuality relative to possible reasons for their disappearance/murder/etc.
Which I find interesting in itself, but overall it makes me think there’s some sort of underlying/unconscious bias going on. And by ‘bias’ I don’t mean anyone ‘hates gays’, I mean that clearly we (as a society) find it strange when a teenage boy/young man doesn’t have a girlfriend, so therefore he must be gay and hiding it, or maybe we don’t understand why he ran away/committed suicide/etc == gay. Either way, a logical fallacy.
Most importantly, I usually don’t think it is a productive sort of speculation - it doesn’t add anything to a potential theory. For instance, let’s assume we know for a fact that Jason is straight. He still might have been abducted/stalked/etc by a priest, male predator, obsessed gay guy, what-have you. If we know for a fact that he’s gay, that doesn’t seem to change the equation, which is ultimately that everyone should be a suspect, regardless of gender or sexuality, because we have zero idea what happened.
met with foul play between his home and the school, for whatever reason.
