"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