The difference between Penn State University and the Catholic Church is that, when the former discovered their favorite son - "Joe Pa" - had done nothing about the rampant pedophilia that was going on right under his nose, they fired him, and sent those who sought to protect the institution at the expense of the abused children to jail, while the latter canonized the "papa" who did both on a global scale ("pope" is Latin for "papa), John Paul II, as a saint.
I grew up in a family that is about as homophobic as Phil Robertson and the Westboro Baptists, only they're not quite as boisterous about it; at least not in public anyway. They have also conveniently convinced themselves that their homophobia is really just their unique Christian ability to "hate the sin, but love the sinner" (even though these very same Christians adamantly refuse to accept that people can "hate Christianity, but love the Christian"). The sexual superiority complex necessarily relied on by such Christians is, of course, blanketed beneath the lambs wool of the Christian humility of serving "God." They interpret their fear of those who are different, in other words, as simply proof of their intimate knowledge and love of God. And the only thing such Christians are more sure about than that their own personal version of "God" exists, is that such a "God" would never want people to be homosexual - no matter how ma...
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