Certain sexual assaults against a spouse will now be criminalized in West Virginia for the first time under a law signed Friday by Republican Gov. Jim Justice.
The law removes marriage as a defense to first- and third-degree sexual assault.
It’s rare that I see a state like West Virginia get one right, but I’ll give them all the credit they deserve when they do.
And just like that, West Virginia rockets into the twentieth century
I’m sorry… why was marriage ever a defense to beat your spouse?
I’m guessing Jesus or something.
This is not about beating your wife. It’s more about rape or forced sex. There are actually lots of places that marriage is still a defense to say you are allowed to force your spouse to have sex since you’re married.
Good for WV for removing that. I think a lot of women will still not know they have options.
Its more just lack of respect for women, this is big in nations with low social development
Yeah, but lack of respect for a particular class of people is rooted in religion, which creates in-groups and out-groups beyond “this is the person in charge and the rest of you aren’t in charge.”
I don’t think Jesus would have been cool with you raping your wife. The religion and the people operating it on the other hand
1 Corinthians 4:7 The wife’s body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
To be fair, those weren’t Jesus’ words, they were Paul’s. But as I said, Jesus hated divorce and women were not considered equal to men, so he might not have had much of a problem with it.
Doesn’t he have final editorial control?
Considering the first “official” Catholic Bible was not assembled until over 300 years after his death, I’m going to say no.
I don’t think anyone gets final editorial control. Hence the endless sects.
How can I get some of that endless sects?
Move to West Virginia with your wife!
He hated divorce and women were second class at the time, so maybe he’d be cool with it?
I had to read this three times to make sure I understood that west Virginia was not doing the regressive thing.
Good, but… only “certain” sexual assaults? Fucking what?
