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Thursday, February 5, 2015

The Continuing Adventures... What's Wrong With Republicans?

Utah Rep. Brian Greene
Is having sex with your unconscious spouse rape?

Alan: It is Republican custom to devise arguments that depend on specious "exceptions to rules."  Brian Greene, the Utah representative described below, is blithely unaware that spousal rape can only become a legal issue if the affected spouse levels charges. Once this fact is acknowledged, it is clear that an unconscious spouse can bring rape charges against a "significant other" just as a drugged co-ed has the right to charge their assailants.  Yes, one can argue otherwise but it is  monstrous to do so. For Republicans, logic and epistemology have become games to play rather than tools for the elucidation of truth.

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Utah lawmakers debate whether sex with unconscious person is rape


 Utah Rep. Angela Romero, a Democrat from Salt Lake City, proposed a change to Utah’s criminal code for sexual assault that would make having sex with an unconscious person a crime. If a person can't give consent, how can it be consensual? Her proposal would close a loophole in the law.
“At the end of the day, when we took out that language, if somebody is unconscious you probably shouldn’t attempt to try to have sexual relations with them,” Romero said.
Well, that presented a dilemma for Rep. Brian Greene:
“It looks to me now like sex with an unconscious person is by definition rape,” Greene said. “I hope this wouldn’t happen, but this opens the door to it — a individual has sex with their wife while she is unconscious, or the other way around if that is possible, but uh a prosecutor could then charge that spouse with rape.”
Watch his perplexing statements here:
(H/T Think Progress for the embeddable video)
Fortunately, common sense prevailed and the committee voted to send it on to the House:
Rep. Brian King, D-Salt Lake City, applauded HB74 for making it clear that when an individual has sex with a victim that the individual knows is unconscious, unaware that the act is occurring or physically unable to resist, “and the state can prove that beyond a reasonable doubt, that’s rape, period, end of story.”
Romero’s bill now advances to the House for its consideration. Sen. Todd  Weiler, R-Woods Cross, is sponsoring HB74 in the Senate.

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