a homosexuals touches little boys and that now gets ignored because some students don’t want their coach to be fired.
So losing their coach is more important than the kids molested to some it seems, . How pathetic and sad has our country gone when this happens and it goes to show how social issues have left this country nearly.
This student support for Paterno has been one of the most depressing things I have seen.
We’ve been pretty effective in the modern world at compartmentalizing personal morality and ethics and declaring that they have absolutely nothing to do with a person’s “real” life (coaching football, engaging in politics, etc.). This is particularly true if sex is involved: suddenly, it’s all “just about sex” and no matter how creepy or cruel the behavior was (or the lying to cover it up), criticism is off-limits.
Then we go into parsing phrases: what the meaning of “is” is, whether something technically constituted harrassment or was “just a crude pass” by a married man, exactly what level of authority Paterno was supposed to have reported Sandusky to in order to meet the requirements of the law, etc.
The thing that is appalling is that our entire society, young and old, liberal and conservative, seems to feel this way now and is even proud to proclaim that they no longer care about personal behavior and morality and honor.