So I guess when Paterno was told that someone saw Sandusky repeatedly thrusting his pelvis into a boy's rear end, that it was just some kind of silly game or something?
Is it possible that a person could be so wrapped up in a sport like football while leading a conservative family-oriented life, that he wouldn’t comprehend what was going on with Sandusky and little boys?
No. Not in today’s world.
I think leading a conservative family-oriented life would require an understanding of the evils out there and the necessity to protect children from them
It is naive to think this man did not know what sodomy is. The standard locker room language would have made him plenty aware of all nature of behavioral descriptions.
Had he never heard of child sexual abuse, of child sexual predators?
Pedophiles? Pedophile priests, for example?
He could have lived his entire life with blinders on, I suppose, when it comes to anything he didn’t want to know about.
But someone please tell me, how do you not know that there are people out there who sexually abuse children and that both girls and boys are victims of it?
The publicity of what happened in some quarters in the Catholic church, if nothing else got through to you, would scream to you that such things do exist.
I’m thinking it’s partly his sheltered life, or self-imposed ignorance, but that it’s MORE he did not want to admit the truth about Sandusky, so his mind refused to “go there”.
The same gay mafia wants to make this whole sorry series of incidents about PSU's football program to take the focus on what it should be about: the gay mafia takeover of a once highly respectable state university. Sandusky is only the tip of the iceberg.
It’s possible, but that sort of reasoning could “forgive” a lot of leaders who had this sort of scandal on their watch. For example, “Is it possible that a person could be so wrapped up in running an archdiocese while leading a conservative celibate life that he wouldn’t comprehend what was going on with the Father xxx and the little boys?”
Not if you read Free Republic.
I'm torn by this, though.
On the one hand, to keep such crimes out of your head, to not imagine that anyone could do such things, to avoid thinking of buggering a 9-year-old, seems honorable.
On the other hand, it's naive. But it's only naive, if you read the papers and understand that people actually do these things.
Paterno was operating on a big stage but in a very small world. Likely a circle of coaches, high level administrators and donors. Zero chance he didn’t know - especially when the acts were being committed by a close confidant in the facility where they both worked.
It’s a shame that Paterno isn’t in prison with his pal Sandusky.
No. Sorry.
Is it possible that a person could be so wrapped up in a sport like football while leading a conservative family-oriented life, that he wouldn’t comprehend what was going on with Sandusky and little boys?Yes, I believe it's possible. http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/otoole/120805
More spin by the Paterno family to save the old mans reputation.
So I guess when Paterno was told that someone saw Sandusky repeatedly thrusting his pelvis into a boy's rear end, that it was just some kind of silly game or something?