It was truly a terrible article, but I don’t think it’s fair to say that the idea of showing another side of someone who’s done horrible things is inherently wrong. I think people forget that:

Where she's from is hardly Pennsyltucky.

He was really cute in Fever Pitch and his little musical videos with The Roots are good?

Relatedly, can we make Louis CK stop doing that woman imitation voice in his standup? It’s extremely annoying. Maybe I should start a petition?

I think I'm pretty open minded, but if someone I was with confessed to having a dead deer fetish, I would probably have to break up with them, rules about fetish-shaming be damned.

I love the frenzied hatred of this post in the Facebook comments. Truly hilarious.

Wait, what? I feel like in this case, they’re throwing the writer under the bus, and I really respected that they didn’t do that at Grantland. This was fully the fault of the editors. They didn't do their job.

I agree that the idea of religious discrimination can play a role in some ridiculous and harmful things, but you’re talking about Christians in the U.S. (most of whose claims of discrimination are likely to be nonsense) and I was thinking primarily about persecuted religious minorities.

Eh. Religious discrimination is a thing.

Yeah, it's a shock to those who know them personally, but statistically, it's not shocking at all. Everyone is law-abiding until they commit a crime. Stating that over and over again is just bad journalism.

I think— as many are saying— it could have been interesting in a “how do we understand someone who commits such reprehensible acts?” sort of way, but it was just... bad. And I blame the editors for the whole mess more than the writer.

It was a good apology, but jeez, how hard would it have been for him to read (even just some of...) the piece before it was published?

Well, I don't think his brilliant mind for science is what invites the comparison...

He said he had to take “30 showers" after being with Amber. That's not airing business, that's just being insulting. I don't see anything arbitrary about the distinction at all.

Nah, I think it’s because he’s publicly called her a dirty slut so many times. If he wants to talk about her sexual history, then his is on the table, too.

I think this is a sort of ridiculous criticism. Some stories are about white men. As long as those aren't the only stories being made into movies and providing opportunities for actors, I'm not sure why we can't have movies about white men.

I don’t disagree, and it’s not an easy situation to be sure, but in this case, the child already exists and her grandparents are able and willing to help out. There are definitely things to be concerned about here, but I just really don’t see “You can’t have sex, and if you have a baby they’ll be taken away from your…

Sure. I do see your point, but I’m not sure those are really comparable situations.

What if the two people have similar intellectual capabilities? Like I said, we don't know anything about the man involved. Many people with intellectual disabilities have romantic and sexual relationships with, for instance, classmates with similar disabilities.

I don’t disagree with you, except I think you’re kind of ignoring the fact that this child already exists. The state can’t be responsible for preparing parents, but once the kid is born, someone needs to parent the kid. If it’s in the best interest of the child (and of society) for the state to prepare their parents…