Morality? What About Child Sex Abuse?

Those birth control pills were originally a political ploy until Obama reversed the decision to avoid a morality issue for Catholic leaders who would've had to pay for contraceptives for women employees. I was elated that this issue was solved without GOP ticket contender Rick Santorum continuing to blast off his misguided (Shall I say lie?) message about the president trampling on religious freedom. "This is not about contraceptives," he bellowed into living rooms across America.

Where was Santorum when the moralistic Catholics and the Evangelicals or Moral Majority pasted their lips with Elmer's Glue in the aftermath of child sex scandals across this country -- churches, schools, homes, and even Hollywood -- who've taken advantage of children -- in the worst way. Isn't that a lack of morality? It certainly is loss of  freedom and dignity morality, and a destruction of boys turning to men or girls turning to women. Many turn to alcohol and drugs to assuage their guilt. Don't believe me? Ask Dr. Drew and other alcohol and drug experts. Besides I have personal knowledge about that, too.

It's aggregious that boys and girls are sexually abused in this land of freedom, but we churn and chew over freedom and morality about church's rights. Isn't this taking advantage of our most vulnerable? Where's freedom when neither girls or boys are protected? I want to see the outcry for freedom take a minute to mention children's freedom not just birth control or the unborn.

And, worse, morality over birth control is hardly one that we should be screaming about. Why the silence about child sexual abuse across the country? Oh, yeah. I forgot about the public clamoring and political pundits sounding off until stories burn to ashes or gets archived in the computer. Or until the next story breaks. Then: Nothing's done. It suggests that we care more about unborn babies than live children who suffer at the hands of grown, rusty pedophiles. What a shame? America needs to focus on how to clean up sordid acts of violence against children.