What a tricky and multi-layered story is this: A former Christian bookstore owner and a former cop were among five men arrested for arranging sex with minors through a chat room. Despicable, right? How could they, being pillars of our society, take advantage of the young?

The "victims" in these cases were 16 and 17 while the two perpetrators mentioned were in their 50s and 60s. However, we would argue that a boy of that age is most likely fully aware of what he is doing on the Internet and the bedroom. And the age of consent in Pennsylvania is 16 anyway, so we're not sure exactly what crime these guys committed, other than being kind of pervy.

We aren't trying to defend child molestors here; it's generally accepted that men who seek out sex with 16-year-olds are not pedophiles or they would be seeking out 11-year-olds. They're just pervs, and the law allows them to be pervs, so we don't know what all the fuss is about.

Christian bookstore owner, cop admit sex with boy [Post-Gazette]