... For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!
Isaiah 30:17 New Intl translation 1984
Where is the justice for the 26 who died in Newtown, New Jersey on December 14, 2012?
I could lay out a litany of mass murder in 2012 and years before but the truth must be dealt with.
In America, the nation "under God", there is no protection for the innocent.
As a matter of fact, God seems to purposefully work against justice for the innocent...
Mass gun murder. God doesn't give a damn!
And rape?
Notre Dame. Our Mother. The Holy Mother of God. Why do you stand against and persecute your own sex?
There is an ugly irony in the story of the woman who did not exist at Notre Dame:
Notre Dame's football team had the ghosts of two dead young women following it this past season. One of the women was an inspiration to us all, selfless as she lay dying from her terminal illness, her only wish for her football hero boyfriend being that he live a full life and not miss a game for her funeral. The other woman, however, was a troublemaker, who died of suicide after trying and failing to get Notre Dame to take her accusations of sexual assault against a football player seriously. Now we all know: Only one of these women was real.
The perfect girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, never existed. And "her" "boyfriend" Manti Te'o—the Notre Dame linebacker who wowed the sports world by racking up 12 tackles in an upset against Michigan State mere days after the devastating loss of his beloved Kekua to leukemia—is not the hero we thought he was. Te'o is currently denying that he was in on the hoax, despite claiming to have met Kekua in person. We'll find out the truth soon enough, but regardless, the heart-warming story of a woman whose dying thoughts are not of her lost future but of her man's bright one was as real as the characters in the movies that tell the same fake story.
Unfortunately for Notre Dame, Lizzy Seeberg was a real person and she really did kill herself in 2011, at age 19, after accusing a football player of sexual assault. ....
Perhaps I missed the true message of God, which means that God protects football players ... especially if they are Roman Catholic football players.
And, of course, there is absolutely no possibility that a woman could be considered an innocent, no matter how young and naive she might be. The unforgivable sin of Eve, the creature that the God of patriarchy ever after has determined to be foul and irredeemable.
The nation was transfixed on a national theater of sports drama on January 7, 2013. Swirling throughout that drama another story disappeared:
As unbeaten Notre Dame prepares to play in tonight’s national championship game against Alabama, the sports media have chosen not to discuss the fact that this football team has two players on its roster suspected of sexual assault and rape; two players whose crimes have been ignored; two players whose accusers felt harassed and intimidated; two players whose presence on the field Monday night should be seen as a national disgrace.
The main reason this is taking place is because their accusers are not pressing charges. One cannot, because she is dead. Nineteen-year-old Lizzy Seeberg, a student at neighboring St. Mary’s College, took her own life after her claims of being assaulted in a dorm room were met with threats and indifference. The other accuser, despite description of a brutal rape, won’t file charges—“absolutely 100%”—because of what Seeberg experienced.
Lizzy Seeberg was a first semester freshman and from a family of Notre Dame graduates. After an evening when she socialized with members of the football team, Lizzy came forward with accusations of a sexual assault. After writing out a statement and submitting to medical attention, she received texts from another member of the team that read, “Don’t do anything you would regret” and “Messing with Notre Dame football is a bad idea.”
Sacred football. Steubenville, Ohio ... Penn State ...