I watched a news conference with Rick Pitino this morning. If you don’t know who Rick Pitino is: he is the head basketball coach for the University of Louisville. He is prominent in his profession and has been successful in winning wherever he has been.
Here’s the situation Rick finds himself. Over a year ago Rick Pitino made the choice to have sex with a woman. Did I mention he was married and the woman he had sex with was not his wife? He did this more than one time and was even brazen enough to do it in the bathroom of a restaurant. Time passed and the woman blackmailed Rick demanding money. He said no to her demands and she claimed he raped her.
Fast forward to the past couple days. The media has reported on the story in very brash terms naming people places and dates. The news conference saw Rick lashing out at reporters for, well, reporting on the news of the case. Where Rick was coming from was a place of being beside himself because of what he described as his family going through ‘pure hell’ the past few months. This ‘pure hell’ escalated over the past couple days as the case received more airtime.
What I don’t understand is why Rick is trying to blame others for the emotional condition of his family. IF Rick would have kept his pants zipped his family would probably not be in the emotional state it is currently.
What has the world come to when a man can have sex with a woman who is not his wife, be blackmailed, accused of rape and then blame the media for the condition his family finds itself?
Rick, how is this anyone else’s fault but your own?
For the rest of us this should serve notice to take responsibility for our choices. If we have a moral, ethical or spiritual failure (all three of which are sin) there are consequences. For those of us who claim to follow Christ there is forgiveness of sin. That is something to build a life on.
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