Don’t get me wrong, ResponseAbility. God is extremely important in all of our lives. My point is that many boys are without fathers due to being illegitimate, Dad divorces and isn’t around or Dad dies. Every boy wants a male role model to emulate. Essentially, a Dad is vitally important (yeah, I know... that isn’t PC or what the media tells us). The development of a boy into a man doesn’t just occur naturally. He isn’t a little boy one day and a productive, God fearing, hard working, responsible man without some help or guidance. That is why this case sickens me. Those young boys wanted to know God, be taught responsibility, a work ethic... everything you and I define as “manhood”. That basic need was exploited, manipulated and twisted into something sick and used for evil.
I heartily agree. God bless you.
I thought it was interesting that Ron Brown’s prayer before the Penn State-Nebraska game was, in part, that they would all play with all their strength and integrity, knowing that young boys all over the country would be looking to them as a way to learn what manliness means.
I was so glad that Bo Pelini made the comments he did - that football is nothing compared to the lives of young people, and protecting them. Again, that’s a public figure displaying manliness - the manly desire to protect the vulnerable rather than exploit them. It flies in the face of a whole society that is built on exploiting the vulnerable - either by lying to them, taking from them, or whatever.
We have in the White House today a man who believes that children born alive after a failed abortion should legally be allowed to be killed either through neglect or an outright act of violence. All because he claims that simply allowing that child to live would be “too much of a burden” on a woman. IOW, this politician is exploiting tiny infants in order to get the votes of the women who want to abuse those tiny infants. Politician exploits woman by offering her the opportunity to exploit the very most vulnerable among us.
Sick, sick, sick. What can a creep like that, or anybody who supports that exploitation, have to say about real manliness? They are grown-up bullies in male bodies, that’s all. And it’s no wonder our young people are confused. The whole society is exploiting every vulnerability they can find.
I agree. I've seen dysfunctional marriages where the father is weak or the lack of a father in the child's relationship in many gay people I know.