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Originally Posted by Lamplighter
With regards to PSU, it was the entire local community that was supporting (and fostering) the atmospheric mania for football,
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You are confusing other Division 1 football with Penn State. Penn State did something that most Division 1 schools would never do. Education was more important. That was Joe and his philosophy.
In Oklahoma, girls would even take long routes around dorms that housed football players. Because sexual harrassment was all but condoned by the Oklahoma coaching staff and therefore by the university administration. Major difference between the two schools.
What makes all this shocking is that Joe would even suspend major players for not maintaining their studies. Joe Paterno was something unique in Division 1 football. Academics and social responsiblity were required of his teams. That was not true in places such as the University of Miami.
Why is Joe's name on the main campus library? His reputation and team requirements. Making Penn State's graduation rates some of the highest in Division 1 football.
Whereas few in Penn State knew of the pedophilia, in the Catholic Church everyone knows the church was protecting pedophiles. Knew it for something less than 20 years. Lynn Abraham in Philadelphia did what no other district attorney in the US was doing. She subpoenaed a list of pedophiles directly from the Archdioceses records after the church denied such records existed. Ten years later, even Pennsylvania legislators refused to change pedophile laws. To make prosecution possible. Worse, the church did absolutely nothing for another ten years to address a problem that every Catholic knew existed.
Very few in Penn State knew of the pedophilia. In the last decade, only a liar would dney pedophilia was a problem everywhere in the Catholic Church.
On the same day that Sandusky was convicted, monsignor Lynn of the Philadelphia Archdioceses was also convicted of protecting pedophiles. He was the top man in charge of this issue. All Philadelphia Cardinals knew of the problem; had a pretty good idea how widely the problem existed. And did nothing. But they did ban Voices of the Faithful from church properties because they demanded reponsible action.
From that trial, we know most if not every Philadelphia bishop and Cardinal had lists of known pedophiles. And still reassigned those priests to locations where kids would be at risk.
We can suspect that Paterno had Sandusky all but removed from the program in 1999 due to what Paterno had heard in 1998. But the Catholic Church all but openly encouraged pedophile priests. Did absolutely nothing for decades involving hundreds of pedophiles modesting probably tens of thousands of kids.
One known pedophile priest was assigned to a home for teenage boys - St Gabriels. Sister Strange, also at that home, reported to the archdiocese that this priest was still things sexually unacceptable. So the church fired Sister Strange. Did Penn State fire McQueary for reporting pedophilia?
What happened in Penn State was bad. What the church did should be prosecuted as racketeering. The Church knew of hundreds or thousands of pedophiles. Protected them. And put them back in locations where those priests would be fully in contact with kids. The church is even protecting some 35 accused priests who fled from the US for prosecution of pedophilia. How many pedophiles is Penn State protecting?
The current Pope openly decided to ignore pedophilia when confronted by most of this nation's Cardinals who flew to Rome in mass to ask for action. Those that should like an honest institution?
Maybe we should banned Notre Dame, Holy Cross, and Villanova from football for two years due to a Pope that has clearly protected pedophiles. How many thousand pedophile priests have been reassigned to institutions where they would constantly be in contact with kids? Yes, not hundreds. Thousands. Proabably tens of thousands. View those numbers! Penn State has one. The church has how many thousands?