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What Is the Real Problem at Penn State?

by Michael Peroutka, Institute on the Constitution

Former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky has been convicted and sentenced to prison for child abuse. Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno has been discredited and disparaged for his failure to stop Sandusky from performing sex acts with children.

Likewise Pennsylvania State University has been criticized and sanctioned by the NCAA for the lack of institutional safeguards which supposedly would have prevented the deviant sexual behavior from continuing for such a long period of time.

While not defending Sandusky’s deviant behavior, I must admit to being confused about what I haven’t heard. Am I correct that none of the victims that have come forward, describing inappropriate sexual behavior by Sandusky, are female? And if none of the victims are female, then doesn’t it follow that all of the filthy, ugly, horrendous, victimization of children is, therefore, homosexual in nature?

And isn’t the same also true of virtually all abuse accusations, during the last two decades, against Roman Catholic priests?

So, isn’t it clear that at the bottom of all these tragic events—all the sinful, painful damage to young lives—we find the practice of homosexuality?

Am I missing something?  In all the massive media coverage of these events, I’ve never heard anyone point this out.

Do you find it curious that a culture exhibits such outrage at Sandusky and Paterno and Penn State, when the same culture promotes the very perversion—the very same abomination—that Sandusky practices, and that Paterno and Penn State are criticized for not stopping?

Despite what you have been hearing, the practice of homosexuality still violates the law.  In the Primary Law Book, the Bible, this is clearly set forth in Leviticus 18:22 just prior to the condemnation of the practice of bestiality.

As our government promotes the normalization of depravity, don’t we see depraved consequences becoming the norm?

  • Grownman

    Where to begin?
     
    Believing that homosexuality is wrong is one thing – it’s not an offensive statement. That’s an opinion, cool, whatever. Equating the act of two adults who have the legal right to have sex with each other to the act of a grown man operating his own charity and using his power as a college football coach to select, groom and rape children his completely, utterly wrong. I don’t agree with most of the sentiments on this website, but I am not usually disgusted or in complete disbelief of its opinions. You have sunk to a new low. Congrats.

    Pedophilia is different from homosexuality … it would seem like most reasonable people could figure this out … adults can legally consent, they look different than children, most know right and wrong and aren’t afraid or intimidated against reporting egregious acts done against them. Children, on the other hand, look, act and think a lot different than adults. And it’s a heck of a lot easier for someone like Jerry Sandusky to hang around and take showers with young boys than it would be to take showers around young girls. The whole situation was a giant crime of opportunity for JS … he set up a charity catering to kids with little to no means, picked out the ones he could get the most access to with the lowest risk of discovery, engaged in events that would give him unlimited access … gym showers, hotel rooms, overnights at his house, etc. and took advantage of them in the worst way. If he would have tried the same thing with a young girl he would have aroused suspicion almost immediately … “why does that old guy want to wrestle around on the floor with a 10 year old girl?” And coed adult/child shower sessions definitely aren’t kosher anywhere, even at Penn State.

    I thought conservatives were the voice of personal responsibility? Suddenly, it’s the culture that is responsible Jerry Sandusky’s actions by approving and endorsing adults having sex with each other?
     
    It seems like this article was written by a 13 year old boy who’s typical argument of “it’s adam and eve note adam and steve” has just been supplanted by the Jerry Sandusky case. Shame on you for printing it.

  • Kami_sama_no_Otaku

     You make many assumptions, such as that two consenting adults should ALWAYS have the right to intercourse.  What about close relatives?  What about the homosexual lobby’s push to lower age of consent?

    What Sandusky did was wrong on MULTIPLE levels… if you’re coming from a worldview like mine, where people were created in the divine image of God and are under God’s authority… you know, the same God we get our inalienable rights from.

    You don’t get to claim homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle; sexual deviancy is sexual deviancy, even if it is a different shade.  Sandusky did horrible things even if we were substituting in other people; he abused his power to prey on people.  It would be wrong even if he was using his influence on those above the age of consent.  Yes it would be wrong if they were male or female.  Quite frankly, given the location of some of the rapes, it would be wrong even if he was just an old perv with his wife looking for thrill sex where someone could walk in on them!

    You didn’t demonstrated a “right” for two consenting men to engage in sexual acts with each other.  If you’d like to, go ahead.  Realize you basically have to construct these rights separate from and in opposition U.S. founding documents.  In the United States, when being internally consistent our laws must be consistent with “nature and nature’s God”.

  • Grownman

    Lawrence vs. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003)

    Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion: “The present case does not involve minors. It does not involve persons who might be injured or coerced or who are situated in relationships where consent might not easily be refused. It does not involve public conduct or prostitution. It does not involve whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship that homosexual persons seek to enter.”

    Basically, adults in the Unites States have the legal right to engage in consensual adult contact in private (it goes without saying that there are obviously guidelines around what defines consensual adult contact). But if you disagree, then you have more in common with the Taliban than with most U.S. citizens.

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