Virginia GOP candidate: Spousal rape isn’t a crime if she is ‘wearing a nightie’

[Katashi_itto]

(Looks Like a real winning Strategy they have here...not for them though


After losing all major statewide races to Democrats for the first time in 24 years, Republicans in Virginia are pushing to replace a moderate GOP congressman with a candidate so conservative that he doesn’t even believe that spousal rape should be a crime.

On Wednesday, Mother Jones pointed out that state Sen. Richard H. “Dick” Black, who is running to take over retiring Rep. Frank Wolf’s seat, had fought against making spousal rape a crime because the woman was “sleeping in the same bed, she’s in a nightie.”

Democrat Shawn Mitchell had uncovered the 2002 video of Black talking about spousal rape for an attack ad during the 2011 campaign for Virginia state Senate.


“I do not know how you could validly get a conviction of a husband-wife rape, when they’re living together, sleeping in the same bed, she’s in a nightie and so forth,” Black says. “There’s not injuries, there’s no separation or anything.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/15/virginia-gop-candidate-spousal-rape-isnt-a-crime-if-she-is-wearing-a-nightie/

[JoePhilly]

1. Does the "H" in his name stand for "Head"? nt

[Rex]

2. How can any human beings living in America in the 21st Century be this fucking stupid

and evil? I think he needs to be investigated and if he did rape his wife, needs to go to prison for a longtime...at least longer than his lifespan.

I bet his entire worldview would change if he went to prison for spousal rape...which is still very much illegal just like all rape is. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, somebody investigate this POS scumbag! The fact that he has been elected before, makes me sick to my stomach.

[cali]

3. this has been posted in GD. People have gasped in horror

I gasp in horror too- not at a repuke slimeball saying something outrageous, sexist and stupid, but at DU's becoming less engaged with issues of importance and less informed.

I've been here a long time and there is NO doubt in my mind that DU has lost a lot of intellectual heft.

[Rex]

6. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

nt.

[Katashi_itto]

7. All I see on DU anymore is Gender Wars, Pope Wars, Porn Wars, and perpetual attacks.

I mean not even attempts at civility anymore. The Extremist groups effectively rule DU.

They seem to have the net effect of dumbing down the board.

[eShirl]

8. what are you doing here instead of in a more important, intellectually hefty thread?

hmmm?

[cali]

10. commenting on the state of DU as reflected by the fact that there are 3

threads in GD about this idiot.

And I've posted substantive threads in GD, today- on the NSA and the TPP.

[Katashi_itto]

12. I didnt spot the others, for all the Emo threads. I did pose a thread about Archaeology

which pretty much was ignored.

[Neurotica]

9. It's more than gasping in horror for those of us who have had to deal with his policies firsthand

Dick Black is precisely the reason that people need to be engaged with politics on a local level.

[joeybee12]

4. Is there a distinction between flannel and silk?

I mean, come on, this guy has obiosuly thought this through so I'm sure his is a nuanced and knowledgeable opinion!

[eShirl]

5. Because pajamas aren't consent you knuckledragging moran.

[Aristus]

11. These guys must be the product of in-breeding.

They always seem to have the same phenotype.

The silver hair and the steel-rimmed glasses are a dead giveaway. All those assholes seem to look like that.

(Yes, I know glasses aren't part of a phenotype; but the ultra-right-wing hammerheads always seem to gravitate to that particular look.)

[Cerridwen]

13. "Wouldn't you love to have a group of 19-year-old girls under your control, day in, day out?"

Copy and paste of my post from another thread about this:

Black entered politics in the late 1990s after retiring as a military prosecutor. He spoke frequently to media outlets about sexual assault in the military, and called military rape "as predictable as human nature." "Think of yourself at 25," Black told a newspaper in 1996. "Wouldn't you love to have a group of 19-year-old girls under your control, day in, day out?"

From the Mother Jones article found in the OP article.

I note he's also buds with cucinelli; see Mother Jones article. he and cuccinnelli appear to share the "values" of hard-line misogynists.

In addition to being a raging, hate-filled, homophobe, of course.

Black was at his most virulent when targeting Virginia's same-sex couples. He championed legislation to ban same-sex couples from adopting children, claiming that gay men and women are more prone to violence, alcoholism, and suicide. When it became clear the bill would fail, according to a 2005 Washington Post article, he amended it to require adoption agents to investigate whether the prospective parents were "known to engage in current voluntary homosexual activity."

In 2003, Black tried to pass legislation preventing same-sex couples to apply for low-interest home loans from the Virginia Housing and Development Authority. The current policy, he explained, "subsidize(s) sodomy and adultery." Black even, in 2005, urged his constituents to picket a local high school that had staged a student's one-act play about a gay high school football player. Portraying same-sex relationships in "a cute or favorable light," he contended, put children at risk of contracting HIV. "If I'm the last person on the face of this Earth to vote against legalizing sodomy," Black once said, "I'll do it." {also from the Mother Jones article}

[abelenkpe]

14. wow

That is some serious crazy. How could he get elected?

[Cerridwen]

15. I imagine you already know this, but as with everything it seems,

a lot of things contribute to "people" like this getting elected.

Low voter turnout, the candidate doesn't state their "values" blatantly or hides them, voters who vote based on name recognition or party rather than investigating the candidate, some people agree with the candidate's "values," and so forth. david duke is a former grand wizard of the kkk, and was elected as a republican Louisiana State Representative; he dialed back the rhetoric, put on a suit, and promoted himself as a "kinder, gentler" white supremacist.