Lying to adopt

Reuters reports:

Smith, a former Catholic priest who left the Jesuit order to pursue life as an openly gay man, temporarily went back into the closet and sought approval to adopt as a single parent to avoid being disqualified based on his sexual orientation.

[His boyfriend] Tan only became the child's second father in the eyes of the law after they brought the child to San Francisco and registered with the state of California.

Did he also lie about being a Catholic priest, because some people think that priests are likely to be pedophiles? He also had an incentive to lie about drug problems and other problems.