How could any Roman Catholic such as Joe Paterno not have heard of "rape and a man"?

Pennlive.com ^ | January 16, 2012 | David Jones

[John Roco]

What does everyone think of this? Joe Paterno reported what McQueary told him to superiors. Isn't that what one is supposed to do? It seems like Joe was fired 'cause he did not follow up and make sure someone called the police, or fired because his superiors did not call the police. Should Joe Paterno have known he should have called the police? It is obvious he should have now- with 20/20 hindsight.

But it is really interesting how Joe being 'Roman Catholic' becomes the point- instead of the continuing and important investigation into male adult homosexuals who have a problem- with targeting male children in their vicinity- regardless of the institution these gay cultured people have joined: church, non-profit, foster family agency, adoption agency, school, etc.

Voice opinion- right now (1/16/2012 @ 10:23pm) on the front page of www.yahoo.com the 1st article is, "Why gay couples make great parents."

[dr_lew]

I buy it. The peculiar phraseology should serve as the stamp of authenticity. It’s not his religion, it’s his age. There was a time when no doubt these things occurred, but they were not spoken of.

[piytar]

For a Roman Catholic to be oblivious to the concept rape of boys, given what was going on at the time, is hard to fathom.

Why? It's the same reason why people deny that homosexual males are about far more likely to be pedophiles than heterosexual males. (See for example http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Sodomy/homosexuality_and_pedophilia.htm -- sorry if that's not a good source, it's late and I'm tired). In fact, the entire Catholic pedophile nightmare was actually a homosexual pedophile nightmare, but that is largely ignored.

The term for it is "cognitive dissonance" - an actual inability to see facts that would force one to shatter his or her world view to see. Sadly, it is all too common...

[HiTech RedNeck]

Were it the very first time he’d heard it alleged to have happened right under his nose, disbelief could be understood. But to view it the same way in retrospect? Fishy. And whether he was Catholic or not shouldn’t have mattered, because it was getting thrust into the public consciousness through the media.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Besides, it was “rape and a BOY.”

[hosepipe]

[ “You know, he didn’t want to get specific,” Paterno said. “And to be frank with you, I don’t know that it would have done any good, because I never heard of, of, rape and a man. ]

I see.. so Joe is a moron!... He may be a democrat as well..
Sorry for the double negative...

Unless he is channeling Homer Simpson.. with a half-hearted DOH!...

[muir_redwoods]

The rape of children is at least as old as the ancient Greeks; catholic priests didn’t invent it. If I hear of such a thing I don’t tell my boss, I tell the cops. Paterno, Sandusky and the rest of the monsters belong in jail first and then Hell.

[count-your-change]

Sounds like a rather pathetic defence of Paterno.

[NTHockey]

Paterno’s got 15 years on me, but sex was not talked about between parents and children when I was a boy. I went to the parish Catholic school and my sex education came from a priest, actually an Army Airborne chaplain. Boys and girls had separate classes starting in the fourth grade.

We went on several trips with priests - to the Passion Play, to the Maryknoll seminary, etc. - and there was NEVER any hint of sexual perversion. Did it go on? Maybe. Did it ever come out? Never.

So, I can understand Paterno’s response. I don’t approve, but I can understand.

[DeaconRed]

Lousy interview with no follow up questions.
Catholic or not if Joe Pa never heard of Rape and men or in this case children then he should be renamed Rip Van Winkle.
Joe Pa is trying to Cover his old butt. I am sure he was hoping it would just go away. It almost did.

[Liz]

Digging deeper, they might find Penn State personnel were forced to attend “desensitization” classes on the subject of homosexuality.

The purpose of these classes is to make abohrent homosexual nehavior seem “normal.”

Yhere is a big push from homo groups to normalizchild/ault sex-—homos favored practice.

[veritas2002]

I think he was referring to reape “of” a man.

He likely didn’t think about that as a possibility because most normal people don’t think that a man’s penis belongs up another man’s a*s.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Still, the alleged targets of such activity was boys, not men.

[HiTech RedNeck]

oops, targets ... were

[scrabblehack]

The fact that he reported it to his superiors suggests to me that he did know more than he’s letting on, or knew enough to not ask any more questions. If he thought it was just “horsing around,” why didn’t he just go to Sandusky and tell him to stop “horsing around?”

[goodwithagun]

Winner winner chicken dinner! I'm really frightened about how far up this thing goes. Joe knew regardless of the excuses he made. The university knew and even let the monster into a private box to watch a game. We still have a missing DA and the missing DA’s hard drive. Something stinks to high Heaven.

[miss marmelstein]

I, too, had a pretty sheltered Catholic childhood - created and sustained by ADULTS. But when I went into the playground or spent my summers on hot city streets playing stickball, I certainly picked up a lot about sex from the other kids. Most of it wrong, of course, but I knew something was going on.

And for a guy who has spent God knows how much time in locker rooms, this is really hard to believe.

[momtothree]

“There was a time when no doubt these things occurred, but they were not spoken of”.

JoePa could possibly get people to think that he didn’t know a man could rape another man or a child when he was a child. These crimes occurred when JoePa was older. Child molestation, rape and homosexuality in general is discussed in the media, on television shows, etc... He didn’t live in a bubble. I personally believe he is attempting to save whatever is left to his “legacy” by using the old “I am just a naive person due to my age” story.

[Graybeard58]

What does being Roman Catholic have to do with "knowing about child rape"? No one in his position is that damn'd ignorant of a problem that crosses any religious boundaries.

[shadeaud]

Paterno and I are so close to the same age and background that I feel qualified to comment. Catholic grade school it was not even a thought about homosexuality. About the 7th grade we discovered that girls were maturing and getting hot.I was a swimmer and there were a few kids that would hang out in the shower a little longer than others which was odd in my opinion. In my Catholic high school taught by Brothers( we use to call the priest wanna be’s). It became very obvious that something different about two brothers. They were always together and made a lot of us uncomfortable when we were around them. Finally one of my friends told me they were homos. I had to find out what that meant, but still didn't realize it consisted of rectal sex. To say one didn't know that pedophilia existed is really stretching it.