Sandusky Fallout and Cover-up

Published July 19, 2012 in the Lynchburg Ledger 

By Bill Wheaton

Press Media Group, LLC

On June 23^rd, after a three-week trial featuring emotional and often graphic testimony from eight young men who had been sexually molested by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, a 12-person jury found him guilty on 45 of 48 counts. Jurors heard from the eight victims, now young adults, who testified that as boys, Sandusky forced them to engage in sexual acts in showers in Penn State's athletics facilities, hotel rooms, the basement of his home and other places. The abuse spanned at least 15 years.

The Sandusky story has rocked Penn State and its renowned football program to its core and has forever tarnished the reputation of famed football coach Joe Paterno.

The Board of Trustees of Penn State hired former FBI director Louis Freeh to conduct an independent investigation shortly after Sandusky was charged in November of 2011.  Last week, Freeh released his 267 page report.  His report contained thousands of words but the one and most meaningful word of all was conspicously missing.  That was “homosexual.”

Jerry Sandusky commited homosexual acts on those eight victims and probably countless others who were too afraid or ashamed to testify.  Not once did the news media even dare to associate Sandusky with homosexuality, which is the sexual attraction to the same sex.

They did label him a pedophile, which is one who has a sexual atrraction to prepubescent children.  Sandusky’s victims reportedly ranged in age from 8 to 17, which would also make him a hebephile.  The term “hebephilia” denotes the sexual attraction for pubescent children (roughly, ages 11 or 12-14), but this term is not as widely used. 

The homosexual sub-culture is a big tent and contains at least four sub-groups.  The most widely known is the so-called “gay community” (I never use the term gay as the homosexual lifestyle is anything but gay).  These are the out-of-the-closet homosexuals and openly practice their sexual perversion in public. 

I use the word “perversion” because that is what God calls homosexual acts.  God loves all us sinners but hates the sins we commit.

The public homosexuals spend a lot of time and efforts trying to force the rest of us to accept their lifestyle and express great intolerance for those who do not.  They are even more intolerant of those who have renounced the homosexual lifestyle (ex-gays) and have settled into a normal heterosexual lifestyle.

They deny any relationship with the homosexual pedophiles like Sandusky and the numerous Roman Catholic priests who have been doing the same sexual molesting for years, and like at Penn State, their actions have been covered up.

It is politically incorrect to say anything negative about homosexuals.  This had given the homosexual lifestyle almost total control of the media and not even Rush Limbaugh would associate Sandusky with homosexuality.  He hinted at it, but stopped just short of actually doing it.

Child molesters of the homosexual sub-culture even has an organization, the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), which actually lobbies for the repeal of laws prohibiting sex with children. 

Pedophile homosexuals often place themselves in positions where they will come in contact with young boys, as Sandusky did.  The Boy Scouts of America learned this lesson and adopted a policy prohibiting homosexuals from any association with scouting.  For this, they have been unjustly criticized and in some cases have faced discrimination.

The third group within the homosexual umbrella is the homosexuals who prefer to keep their homosexual lifestyles private.  That is fine, except if they are involved in public policy or in forming public opinion. 

For example, a former chief-of-staff to former Senator George Allen (Jay Timmons) was outed as a homosexual by the public homosexual group and then transferred to a non-public policy position in the Senate Election Committee. 

Another example is a current member of the Virginia General Assembly from Fairfax County who has disclosed privately he is a homosexual but continues to withhold that information from his constituents.  That is blatantly dishonest.

Yet another example is the former head of the Fairfax County Public Schools Family Life Education program, Jerald L. Newberry, who was also a licensed counselor.  He was outed by some anonymous students.

The last group of homosexuals what are called the “cruisers.”  They, like many of the pedophile homosexuals, live an otherwise normal and heterosexual lifestyle, but like Sandusky, have a dirty little secret.  They cruise known locations to engage in anonymous homosexual sex with complete strangers.  Many who engage in this perversion end up bringing a sexually transmitted disease, sometimes HIV, back home to their unsuspecting wives.

This activity has been ongoing for many years and as you may suspect, there is a website devoted to this very activity.  There have been locations in Lynchburg where cruisers would go to find anonymous sexual partners.  Some of the locations listed in the past were Peaks View Park and the Downtown YMCA. 

Fortunately, the police also are aware of these locations and occasionally set up sting operations and bust the offenders.  I recall that back in Northern Virginia a sting operation at Bull Run Park netted dozens of offenders including the president of the Prince William County Teacher’s Association.

That brings me to my final point.  That is our educational system has, for years, presented homosexuality as acceptable alternate lifestyle.  They of course don’t mention the pedophiles and cruisers.  Penn State offers such courses as:

• ENGL 245, Introduction to Lesbian and Gay Studies
• BB H 251, Straight Talks I: Advanced Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity Peer Education
• ART H 225, Sexuality and Modern Visual Culture (An examination of the visual expression of gender and sexual identities in English-speaking cultures since the late nineteenth century.)

Is it any wonder why Jerry Sandusky felt he had no worries from Penn State authorities to engage in his homosexual molestation of young boys?

Bill Wheaton lives in Concord, Virginia.  Recent columns are available at billwheaton.blogspot.com.  His email address is bwheaton@moreinformation.net