Posted on 11/11/2011 4:17:13 PM PST by Lancey Howard
Grow up? I’m not the one throwing insults and using foul language. Perhaps you could formulate an intellectual response and get back to me?
Just attended a class where the instructor made it a point to assure everyone that men who sexually assault little boys are NOT homosexual... political correctness run amuck, again.
Wow. If they are not homosexuals who simply prefer younger sex partners, then what are they?
That is one hell of an assclown "instructor" right there. Can you get your money back?
By the way, you might ask this “instrcutor” if a man who has sex with an 11-year-old boy is a homosexual. Then continue up the ladder - - how about a man who has sex with a 12-year-old boy? 13? 14? 15? 16?, etc. Try to find out when the man is a “homosexual” and not a... whatever the instructor thinks he is.
FRegards, and good luck with that class,
LH
Our culture has done much to devalue manhood as well as boyhood over the past several decades. To some degree, McQueery's inaction may reflect that.
Indeed, there may well be a lot more truth to that than we realize at first glance...
the infowarrior
"He met the minimum (legal) obligation, but he did not, in my opinion, meet a moral obligation that all of us would have." - Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett.
(Note: Corbett is also a member of the Penn State Board of Trustees.)
Not disputing that at all. What needs to be borne in mind, however, is the non-stop 24/7/365 indoctrination which has been steadily given to *everyone* by the media, Hollyweird, pop culture, et al over the last 50 years.
Consider logically, if you're able to, the idea of 'meeting a moral obligation" when the very atmosphere of your entire society at large questions the very idea of an objective morality. This *would* be confusing, to say the least.
I can vividly recall the initial, sloppy attempts to get *me* to question an objective morality in the late 60's, early 70's. For whatever reason, I cannot definitely say why, I rejected that premise, wholesale back then, and the results of my rejecting it have, quite literally, made me who, and what I am. It has shaped my life in more ways than I care to count, and every day, I find another way my rejecting the, at that time rather crude, brainwashing into accepting a subjective, rather than objective morality has shaped my beliefs, my psychology, everything I am, and hold myself to be.
Did Mc Queary fail a moral obligation, by my lights, yes, because I've held fast to objective morality, despite a maelstrom directed at us all, to get me to separate me from it.
Thus, I am coming to the conclusion, that while I find his actions less than what I would do, I can, at some level, find what Our Lord requires of me, compassion, and forgiveness for his failing, if only because "but for the grace of God, there go I"...
the infowarrior
Some things are instinctive, and all the media and government school propaganda in the world can’t change human instinct. Oh, they might succeed in getting some people to pretend, or in getting some people to conform to the chic political correctness of the day, but some things are simply natural and instinctive for human beings.
For example, no matter what the government schools try to drill into kids, kids remain instinctively creeped out by homosexuality. If you’ve ever heard young children proclaim, “That’s so gay”, then you know what I’m talking about. It is tragic that some kids do end up burying their instinctive grip on right and wrong beneath a bogus pile of righteous lies fed to them by malicious adults.
Another example is socialism. Leftists will always believe they can create what Austrian economists called, “the socialist man”. It cannot be done, because human instinct remains rooted in self-preservation. William Bradford’s diaries chronicling the collapse of the ‘Mayflower Compact’ provide an instructive introduction to the folly of socialism. The lefties, however, cannot give up no matter how often they fail. It’s a mental imbalance.
Springing to the aid of a child is similarly instinctive. At least it is for most people. I have no clue what McQueary was thinking when he backed out of that shower and ran to his Dad, but I believe the phrase used in the sports world is, “He choked.”
I’m not paying money for the class so no refund needed :) The person making the statement is a social worker. It’s obvious that professionals just spout politically correct phrases without thinking. “Men who sexually assault young boys are not homosexuals” is probably codified in the
DSM IV. Probably backed by extensive research/sarcasm.
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