I just feel compelled to repost this:

. . . The very individuals who speak with disdain of the private, adult
sexual lives of others, suddenly become coy about the exploitation of
teenagers in their care. Those who condemn others for — sadly —
ordinary sexual indiscretions, are publicly and undeniably revealed to
have committed the same (or worse, more destructive) sins, but are
somehow exempt.

Because they are sorry. Because they are religious.
Because God forgives them and so should you. Because they are
Republican. Because such behavior should now be considered private and
irrelevant, where it was previously considered ‘fair game’. . .

. . . Just
as most rape and child molestation is not about sex, the core of these
scandals is not about sex, either. It’s about hypocrisy, greed, abuse
of power (which is, after all, what many who have too much do with it),
selfishness, narcissism, and the arrogance of the untouchable. But
criminality — the abuse and deception and exploitation of the weak and
uninformed and easily led — uses the same techniques, in both the
commission of the crime and the denial of responsibility . . .