[Rummyfan]

Ryan Murphy, told Bravo's "Sex in the Box": "Hopefully I have made it possible for somebody on broadcast television to do a rear-entry scene in three years. Maybe that will be my legacy."

Mr Murphy aims high doesn't he? If that's what he wants for his legacy......

[Rummyfan]

C.S. Lewis said it best in "The Abolition of Man": "In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."

Ol' C.S. was way ahead of his time. I need to do some reading.

[Joe 6-pack]

"...and while even most conservatives no longer regard homosexuality as a mental illness..."

I AM THE 1%.

[Nickname]

Pedophiles want the APA to change how it classifies them. They want their behavior normalized now, too.

[yldstrk]

Well, not exactly. Surely Sandusky, McQueary (unfortunately named) and Paterno knew what they were doing was wrong in their own as well as anyone else’s eyes. The problem is this: When they see everyone else idolizing sex, graft, thievery, lying and Denmark is rotten from the top of its administration on down, they get trapped in Satan’s snare real easily.

Yes, people with morals are laughed at, but time will show that those without morals will become as nothing. You will look for the evil ones and they will be gone.

[Colofornian]

From the article: What we tolerate and promote we get more of and what we discourage and reject we get less of. C.S. Lewis said it best in "The Abolition of Man": "In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful." The message at Penn State was that we live in a culture that forbids almost nothing. Jerry Sandusky apparently believed that and crossed one of the few remaining lines of morality left in our culture.

Yet few seem to recognize that it's both our human heart and our corporate human culture -- fueled by the forces of darkness -- which is in dire need of repentance, reformation, restoration and revival.

Notice even the distancing: "It wasn't me that did this" vs. the repulsive shame.

The headline is perfect -- Penn State's shame is ours. In a concentric circle way.

The Penn State football players and coaches are to be ashamed...
...as we should expect of its student body and faculty
...and alumni and State College residents
...and Pennsylvanians and Penn State fans
...and college football fans who as Thomas says, treat football as "our national religion"
...and us as U.S. Citizens.

We have apparently communicated to the pervs and perps that we won't hold them accountable, which just emboldens them even more...even to use public showers -- without consequences for their actions.

And even when the lax are reigned in by firings, what happens? The indifferent culture of Penn State erupts -- more provoked over the firing(s) than the initial actions and inaction which prompted it.

[ZX12R]

It’s a real shame that when those kids needed one to intervene, there wasn’t a man among them at Penn State.

[Christian4Bush]

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[frposty]

“Penn State’s Shame - and Ours”

It sure as heck doesn’t make me ashamed. I have nothing to do with Penn. State, and it’s not my fault that at any given time there are some perverts among us.

The ones that should be ashamed of themselves are those who waste hours of their time following this story in the news.