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The nation’s tough anti-pedophilia laws are unfair to pedophiles, according to an op-ed published by The New York Times’ editors. “One can live with pedophilia and not act on it,” says Margo Kaplan, an entrepreneurial assistant law professor at Rutgers University, and a former lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union. Tragically, the roughly 1 percent of “people who are sexually attracted to children] must hide their disorder from everyone they know — or risk losing educational and job opportunities, and face the prospect of harassment and even violence,” she wrote.

Last week, on the eve of Penn State's Orange Bowl game against Florida State, Paterno said something really dumb. He was asked about Seminoles linebacker A.J. Nicholson, who had been accused of sexual assault, and he said this: "There are so many people gravitating to these kids. Maybe he didn't know what he was getting into, Nicholson. Somebody will knock on the door. A cute girl knocks on the door. What do you do? "Thank God, they don't knock on my door. I'd refer them to a couple of other rooms. "But that's too bad. You hate to see that,...