THE SCANDAL at Penn State University, in which a former coach repeatedly raped boys as young as ten in a university locker room and in which university officials knew about it and failed to inform authorities, is one of the most shocking and disgusting stories in this age of shocking and disgusting stories.

This week, as a reader writes at VFR, students at Penn State protested not the failure of the university to prevent the ongoing abuse of young boys, but the firing of Joe Paterno, the football coach who knew about the incidents and did not make them public.

Another reader at VFR writes:

I don’t know why there is all this fuss about the Penn State child molestation case. It sounds like a Glee episode to me.

Lawrence Auster responded:

Liberals would indignantly reject your point. It is a liberal axiom that there is zero connection between our society’s liberation and approval of homosexuality, and the increasing homosexual abuse of boys. Of course not all homosexual abuse of boys results from homosexual liberation; such crimes have always existed. But it ought to be obvious that the more society approves and empowers perverted sexual desires, the more such desires will be harbored and expressed by more and more people, and the more such expression will spill over from the officially “approved” area of perversion, consensual perversion between adults (and now between teenagers, as in Glee), to the officially “disapproved” area of perversion, non-consensual perversion between adults and children. When moral boundaries are toppled generally, the resulting loss of self-control is going to affect not just the “nice” people who engage in consensual perversion, but everyone, including potential rapists and child molesters.There is, in short, a continuum of sin, and therefore when you liberate and encourage sin, it’s not going to stay within the “polite” bounds that you have set for it, but will affect the totality of life. Liberals cannot grasp that this continuum of sin exists, because they don’t believe that sin exists.

But, you may ask, if liberals don’t believe in sin, what do they believe in? After all, they think that the sexual abuse of children is wrong, they think that rape is wrong. So aren’t they regarding those acts as sinful? No, they are not. Liberals believe that all consensual acts should be permitted, and that all non-consensual acts should be prohibited. The reason a non-consensual act is prohibited is not that there is some inherently wrong or sinful quality in the act itself, but that one of the parties to the act has not given his consent to it. Liberals don’t believe in morality, they believe in contracts–contracts founded on nothing but the will, desire, and mutual consent of the parties.

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