The only kind of sex conservatives can rally to defend: non-consensual( ie: rape)

[Triana]

What rape has in common with abortion bans: "In the end, it’s all about making women suffer for daring to think they own their own bodies." (https://www.facebook.com/Mediamatters/posts/10152425280596167)
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George Will has suddenly become the champion of sexual liberty, it appears. He was on Fox News Sunday, denouncing big government for its interference in people’s sex lives.

You asked, can we trust the government to do its job? What isn’t its job nowadays? I just made a list of it. It’s fine-tuning the curriculum of our students K through 12. It’s monitoring sex on campuses. It’s deciding how much ethanol we should put in our gas tanks. It has designed our light bulbs and it’s worried sick over the name of the Washington football team.

Monitoring sex? Is Will standing up against the various attacks on consensual sex that are going on around the country? Is he mad because Students For Life at the University of New Mexico attempted to shut down “Sex Week” because they disapprove of—and are trying to monitor—other students’ sex lives? Is it Alabama is so invested in monitoring the sex lives of teenagers that they passed a law basically requiring teenage girls to be put on trial should they wish to have abortion? Is he mad about the 5th Circuit Court allowing an abortion law in Texas that clearly only exists to punish women who chose consensual sex?

Nah, of course not. He’s pissed about California’s new law requiring campuses to define consent as, well, consent. I explained it here, should you want to read in more detail, but the TL;DR version is this: The only people who will be negatively affected by the law are men who want to get away with forcing sex on unwilling women, i.e. rapists. For men who do not enjoy raping, only having sex with the willing is not only not difficult, but standard operating procedure.

So that’s where conservatism stands, circa 2014: Consensual sex is evil, but a man’s right to force non-consensual sex on a woman is sacrosanct, no matter how much damage it causes. After all, it mostly just hurts women, right, and they aren’t really people at all.

THE REST:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/the-only-kind-of-sex-conservatives-can-rally-to-defend-non-consensual/

[Trillo]

1. That's sad. NT

[treestar]

2. We as a society decided to limit ethanol in gas tanks

or whatever other sacrosanct right he thinks there is to pollute the environment. Does he really think without the EPA that industry would not pollute as much as it could get away with?

The football team name concern is not coming from the government.

He's an idiot. He should be happy about sex on campus being controlled - it's not being controlled the way he wants is all - he's have dorm mothers for the girls again.

[stevenleser]

3. I never thought of it that way before but that is exactly right. nt