The GOP has a new "Todd Akin"...LOL

[Oldgamer]

GOP House candidate opposes spousal rape charges

Republicans hoping to make it through the 2014 elections without repeating the mistakes of Todd “legitimate rape” Akin could be in for a tough ride, thanks to Virginia congressional hopeful Richard Black.

As Mother Jones reported Wednesday, Black opposed criminalizing spousal rape while he served in the Virginia state legislature. His reason? It would be impossible to prosecute a man for rape “when they’re living together, sleeping in the same bed, she’s in a nightie, and so forth,” Black said in 2011. He also argued that men should not have to live with the “emormous fear” of facing a false spousal rape accusation.

Black, who is mounting a primary challenge to moderate Republican Rep. Frank Wolf, would also be unlikely to help lawmakers working to address the military’s sexual assault epidemic. In 1996, Black called rape in the ranks “as predictable as human nature,” according to Mother Jones’ report. Before starting his political career, Black was a military prosecutor.

In addition to his stance toward sex crimes, Black has referred to emergency contraception as “baby pesticide,” and he once used a public library computer to show violent rape pornography to a television reporter in an attempt to emphasize why libraries should block porn on their computers.

Virginia voters rejected socially conservative candidates who ran for statewide office in 2013, when Democrats won all the statewide elections for the first time in 24 years.

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Wow, the GOP just can't get these nutballs out of their ranks, now can they? LMAO

 

[theeedude]

Gerrymander and Citizens United means poop floats to the top in the GOP.

 

[Genx87]

Why dont current rape laws cover this topic?

 

[Oldgamer]

Gerrymander and Citizens United means poop floats to the top in the GOP.

Sadly you are right...

 

[nehalem256]

Why dont current rape laws cover this topic?

It might have something to do with this:

It would be impossible to prosecute a man for rape “when they’re living together, sleeping in the same bed, she’s in a nightie, and so forth,” Black said in 2011.

 

[brycejones]

That guy sounds like a real tool.

 

[Wreckem]

Why dont current rape laws cover this topic?

They do. However there was a time they didn't.

Prior to the 70s rape laws were defined as forced sexual intercourse by a male against a female who is not his wife. That was changed in all fifty states from 1970 to 1993 when the last hold out state made it a crime.

Its a crime in all 50 states, but some states still have exemptions from prosecution under certain circumstances. Virginia was doing away with those exemptions when that guy made his original comments.

 

[Moonbeam]

The fear of the far right has conservatives that have brain defects that heighten their reactions to fear, will not stand up to them even if they are not themselves so sick. The Conservative movement is in free fall to the right as a result. It won't be long and slavery of blacks will be back as a cure for welfare.

 

[hal2kilo]

He has exactly 0 chance of making it even through the primary in that district.

That's zero, zip, nada, ect.

 

[Theb]

Jesus Christ. Every woman in the country should be mailed a restraining order against this guy.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I find it funny that none of these guys can even describe sex in a mature way.
"sleeping in the same bed, she’s in a nightie, and so forth"
and so forth? really?

 

[nehalem256]

I find it funny that none of these guys can even describe sex in a mature way.
"sleeping in the same bed, she’s in a nightie, and so forth"
and so forth? really?

Do you really want the guy to go into details on the mechanics of sex?:biggrin:

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Do you really want the guy to go into details on the mechanics of sex?:biggrin:

For humor yes I would!

 

[Phokus]

Oh, that's why dayswithoutagoprapemention.com reset to 1

http://www.dayswithoutagoprapemention.com/

 

[Oldgamer]

Oh, that's why dayswithoutagoprapemention.com reset to 1

http://www.dayswithoutagoprapemention.com/

Omg, I just clicked on that linked, well that confirms it these are some real looney toons in the GOP!

 

[ElFenix]

Oh, that's why dayswithoutagoprapemention.com reset to 1

http://www.dayswithoutagoprapemention.com/

Why would something in 2011 reset the counter today?

 

[rommelrommel]

Why would something in 2011 reset the counter today?

Good point.

 

[etrigan420]

"Baby pesticide" actually has a nice ring to it...:hmm:

 

[Kadarin]

It bears reposting:

 

[Siddhartha]

Gerrymander and Citizens United means poop floats to the top in the GOP.

In Indiana, the Republicans pretty much have a lock on the state's two Senate seats. Until in the 2012 election the Republican candidate Richard Mourdock said:

"I know there are some who disagree and I respect their point of view but I believe that life begins at conception. The only exception I have to have an abortion is in that case of the life of the mother. I just struggled with it myself for a long time but I came to realize: "Life is that gift from God that I think even if life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen"."

The Democrat won by almost 7% in a three way race,