What does the alleged source of true and absolute morals teach us about rape? Thanks to Dwight for the find. Your Thoughts?
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Vatican Confirms Widespread Rape Of Nuns By Priests In 23 Countries
February 26, 2011 – 3:12 pmSickening: The Catholic Church in Rome made the extraordinary admission yesterday that it is aware priests from at least 23 countries have been sexually abusing nuns. The Catholic Church in Rome made the extraordinary admission yesterday that it is aware priests from at least 23 countries have been sexually abusing nuns. Most of the abuse [...]
A Rape Victim’s Heartbreaking Testimony About Planned Parenthood’s Support
February 23, 2011 – 2:04 amvia PZ Myers comes a vital video by Chloe Heintz: UPDATE: Now there’s a follow up interview with Chloe from CBSNews.com Your Thoughts?
The Pope’s Weaselly Excuses For Church Child Abuse In The ’70s
January 11, 2011 – 6:24 pmOn Christmas, the Pope Benedict XVI tried, pathetically, to minimize the Church’s responsibility for the pedophilia scandals: Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s. In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, [...]
Rape By Deception
July 25, 2010 – 10:45 amProfMTH explores legal definitions that define sex acquired through fraud as rape: I have argued before, formally speaking, deception is a kind of force. Laws which treat procurement of sex through fraud as a form of rape seem to stem from similar considerations of the relationship between at least certain forms of deliberate deceit and [...]
United Arab Emirates Court Sentences Teenage Gang Rape Victim To Prison
June 20, 2010 – 7:51 amThe weak, cruel, unjust, and barbarically stupid misogyny of laws in the Islamic world never ceases to sicken or anger me: A court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has convicted an 18 year old girl (”LH”) to one year in prison for “consensual sex.” The UAE court convicted her because she agreed to be alone [...]
David Vitter Confronted By Rape Victim About His Vote Against Rape Victims’ Rights To Sue Haliburton
November 10, 2009 – 6:36 amA month ago we highlighted the unconscionable decision of 30 Republican senators to vote against Al Franken’s bill which would assure that those who were raped in connection with their employment at Haliburton’s would have rights to sue Haliburton. In this tense exchange, a rape victim confronts one of those senators, David Vitter. A transcript [...]
30 Republican Senators Vote Against Rape Victims’ Rights To Bring Charges In Court
October 8, 2009 – 5:38 pmYesterday, 30 Republican senators opposed an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill that would prohibit federal defense contractors like Halliburton/KBR from getting money “if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.”In other words, 30 GOP senators want to deny rape victims their day in court. Just stupefying and [...]
Perspective On Polanski
October 3, 2009 – 7:33 pmSendai Anonymous has all you need to set you straight on Polanski. And then a little bit on the stupefying injustice to which Polish hypocrisy related to this matter sinks, (Sendai Anonymous, it’s worth noting is Polish, so this matter hits particularly close to home. She’s also a woman, so that’s also part of why [...]
Influential Iranian Imam Supports Interrogations Using Rape
September 3, 2009 – 3:27 pmThe following quotes from Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, with whom Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is said to “regularly consult,” are graphic, sickening, and devastating to anyone with a conscience. Read at your own discretion: Asked if a confession obtained “by applying psychological, emotional and physical pressure” was “valid and considered credible according to Islam,” Mesbah-Yazdi [...]
Pat Condell Excoriates The Left For Not Standing Up To Islamism
July 24, 2009 – 5:35 amThere is a lot to chew on in this latest rant from Pat Condell on the need for the tolerant to be more intolerant of intolerant religions than they are intolerant of denouncers of intolerant religions. While Condell’s attack on multiculturalism is too broad and at times his rhetoric is cringe-inducingly counter-productive, I do share [...]
Jimmy Carter Breaks With Southern Baptists Over Views Of Women
July 20, 2009 – 4:08 pmGood for President Carter: After more than 60 years together, Jimmy Carter has announced himself at odds with the Southern Baptist Church — and he’s decided it’s time they go their separate ways. Via Feministing, the former president called the decision “unavoidable” after church leaders prohibited women from being ordained and insisted women be “subservient [...]
"Wedding" Young Girls So They Can Be Executed
July 20, 2009 – 10:53 amThis story out of Iran is nightmarish and devastating to read: He said he had been a highly regarded member of the force, and had so “impressed my superiors” that, at 18, “I was given the ‘honor’ to temporarily marry young girls before they were sentenced to death.” In the Islamic Republic it is illegal [...]
Kantian Reasons To Lie To The Murderer At The Door?
July 14, 2009 – 12:41 pmMichael Cholbi thinks he has some: First, the lie is not meant to advance the happiness either of the liar or of the potential murder victim, but to thwart the abuse of the victim’s autonomy that her murder would represent. Hence, if lying to the murderer is manipulation at all, it is manipulation in the [...]
Challenges To Evolutionary Psychology
June 29, 2009 – 11:17 pmInteresting arguments. I’m not sure how many of them threaten the credibility of either evolutionary psychology or sociobiology as disciplines themselves , rather than specific morally and politically unpleasant theses advanced by particular theories derived by scientists working within those fields. And these arguments force evo psych and sociobiology to incorporate a view of the [...]
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