Moral Outrage

I’m a resident of Portland, Oregon and recently our mayor, Sam Adams, has been involved in a “sex scandal” involving an 18-year-old, Beau Breedlove, with whom he had consensual sex 3 years ago, when he was 42. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/us/26portland.html?_r=1&ref=us Mayor Adams lied about the relationship to the media, after another mayoral hopeful leaked the news. Some in Portland

More than 1,000 students in Paignton, England were taught how to pole-dance – at school, as reported by the Daily Mail. Educators invited pole-dancing company, The Art of Dance, to give lessons to students during lunch as part of the school’s “Be Healthy Week,” the Daily Mail said. – by Catey HillI keep reflecting back upon my Junior High & High school years and yet can’t

In an unusual legal case arising from the increasingly popular practice known as “sexting,” six Pennsylvania high school students are facing child pornography charges after three teenage girls allegedly took nude or semi-nude photos of themselves and shared them with male classmates via their cell phones. The female students at Greensburg Salem High School in Greensburg, Pa., all 14- or 15-years-old, face c

The Internet may not be such a dangerous place for children after all. A task force created by 49 state attorneys to look into the problem of sexual solicitation of children online has concluded that there really is not a significant problem. The findings ran counter to popular perceptions of online dangers as reinforced by depictions in the news media like NBC’s “To Catch a Predator” series. One attorney gen

Fugitive film director Roman Polanski can’t move to have a 1977 statutory rape conviction dismissed based on claimed government misconduct until he turns himself in, a Los Angeles prosecutor contends. The issue is being argued in Los Angeles County Superior Court because lawyers for the 75-year-old resident of France have sought to have his guilty plea in the case overturned, reports the Los Angeles Times. A