[NYer]

Anthony Esolen is a lecturer, translator, and writer. His latest book is Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child. He teaches at Providence College. 

[NYer]

Duplicity ping!

CA has now mandated that LGBT studies be taught in public schools. 12 states now recognize gay unions and/or marriages. Esolen rightfully points out the duplicity in what is being taught and/or legalized and societal response to situations such as Penn State. As Catholics, we can never condone such actions but are subjected to the ramifications of legal sanctions on a daily basis.

[calex59]

What makes this idiot think that the people making the comments condone queers and their behavior? The odds are they don’t and that is the reason for the tone of their remarks. They realize this BS is part of queer behavior, that they recruit children because they can have none of their own unless they indulge in heterosexual sex, which most of them won’t.

[allmendream]

It is, for most I assume, not the homosexual nature of the act that makes it so reprehensible - most people would be equally (or more so) ‘up in arms’ if Sandusky had sexually abused a string of prepubescent girls in vulnerable circumstances while purporting to be helping them - while this was all apparently well known and covered up by a University Athletic Department.

For myself I don't think the guy abusing a 10 year old boy in the shower is any more of a disgusting reprobate than a guy abusing a 10 year old girl in the shower.

I want them to both go to the same place and as swiftly, in accordance with proper jurisprudence, as possible.

[Savage Beast]

I know absolutely nothing about Anthony Esolen, but this is absolutely true:

"...it is vile to corrupt the innocence of children. But if they reflected for a moment, they would see that we’ve been corrupting children for a couple of generations now.

"The television that children watch is almost uniformly vicious. Drug stores are stocked with lewd and nasty magazines. Pornography on the computer is a click away. High schools peddle porno-twaddle in English classes...

"Even toys for little girls instigate the itch of sexual desire. And it’s impossible to watch the good ol’ national pastime on television without seeing commercials for men who need the latest chemical winch. Where, then, is the loathing for all of that?
"

[Savage Beast]

And furthermore--

A nation that can conquer polio and put a man on the moon cannot find out who is pushing dangerous drugs on its children and put a stop to this???

If so, it's not a matter of ability; it is a matter of will. And this is as vile as any evil on the planet.

[TradicalRC]

Love Anthony Esolen.