Police arrested a 27-year-old Memphis man after his wife said he attacked and raped her.
Memphis police said the man drove his wife to the back of a church parking lot. There, he accused her of cheating on him.
Officers said the man then held his wife down, choked, and raped her.
The woman said her husband told her, "I am your husband. I can't rape you. I can get it anytime I want."
The woman called police and after an examination at the rape crisis center, officers arrested her husband and charged him with aggravated rape and assault.
Fucking asshole!
Of course he probably believes he cannot rape his wife because he is listening to people like that guy who posted on the Christian website that husbands "should not tolerate refusal," and other upstanding religious leaders who claim that once married a woman belongs to her man, and must obey him just as she would obey God.
This is, of course, the same kind of thinking that allows religious extremists all over the world to brutalize women and claim that it is their right by virtue of their faith.
It's not.
It's that Old Southern Slave mentality, suffused with the Christian Biblical justification.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that she wasn't intimidated and called the police.
ReplyDeleteI guess the dude is going to learn that he was wrong, eh? I hope he gets a long jail sentence.
ReplyDeleteJury trial?
DeleteHe might get a standing ovation..
7;20 I have more respect for my fellow citizens than that, so I disagree; and hope you are wrong. Despite what the media insists, life and mankind is not a cesspool of ugliness; even though it contains such evil as the story here.
DeleteI highly doubt he will serve any time. ( unfortunately) because the judge will most likely feel like he does.
DeleteNow THERE'S your assault on "traditional marriage"! LOL
ReplyDeleteI mean, if a good Christian can't force a woman to give him what he wants on demand and/or by force, then what's the point of marrying her? ;P
Just wanted to take a moment to thank you, Gryphen, for publicizing these important issues and sharing your enlightened commentary on them. They are often anything but easy to read, but they need to be exposed, and day in, day out, you stay on the job.Thank you!
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to your a man and a women first. A man raped a woman. Oh noow he's a husband first.
ReplyDeleteHe took her behind a church. Of course he did.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping this scum bag has to spend the rest of his life with a very large cell mate who returns the treatment he showed his wife.
ReplyDeleteAlong with the Pastor in the other thread. I'm sure Bubba isn't picky
DeleteGirl remember there's always more to the story. The husband just filed disability neglect charges and called child protective services on the woman. Then she's reportly raped and beaten? Why would he do it? He was planning to spend her money. Why rape her? This girl is obviously lying!!!! Makes it hard for the REAL sexual assault victims to open up.
DeleteI'm glad she called the police... and I'm even more glad that they believed her. They didn't take him on a walk around the block and advise him to cool down.
ReplyDeleteThings are so bad that one doesn't tend to think of the police as doing the right thing, and isn't that a sad commentary on our nation's law enforcement officers?
The Talibangelical, Dominionist mindset is what encourages this type of behavior. The less secure he is as a man the more he needs a religion to tell him he can rape his wife and still be a pious wonderful boy.
ReplyDeleteOrganized religion is what's most wrong with the world.
I didn't read in the story that he claimed god or religion allowed him to force himself on his wife, or that his wife claimed religious beliefs were the cause of this attack.
ReplyDeletePlease point out where that is in the reported story gryph.
Haven't been keeping up with the news the past few weeks? Michelle Duggar, Larry Solomon? Just two people recently hiding behind their bible to tell women what they want is not important and that their husbands have the right to take. I do not think it is a coincidence that this man parked behind a church for this crime.
DeletePoor low IQ meghan.
DeleteYou can't put two and two together and I'm the stupid one? Ok.
Deletemeghan, put down your bonbons and turn off the Ricki Lake reruns for a moment.
DeletePlease point out the location in the linked article, paragraph and sentence, where either the article claims, or quotes the wife claiming that religious beliefs were the cause of this attack.
Is your stereotyping supposed to imply that I stereotype men? Not only can't you add two plus two, you also don't understand irony.
DeleteSo basically you have nothing meghan do you?
DeleteCorrelation does not imply causation.
Get back to your bonbons and Ricki Lake.
Why should I spell it out to an obvious woman hater? Do some basic logic. Not sure why gryphen hasn't seen fit to muzzle your sexist ass....
DeleteSure thing crazy lady.
DeleteIt's significant the husband felt safe in a church parking lot, not to mention the power of the lord behind his demands. Otherwise, he would have driven down a secluded road.
DeleteAlso, he was the cheater and that is no doubt what the entire episode was about... his guilty conscience causing him to totally project himself onto her and then extracting retribution.
I'm waiting for some conservative, religious woman to stop by and say, "yes, according to my God, my husband can rape me."
ReplyDeleteDon't invite Sarah Palin to comment here.
DeleteThe only thing good I saw on the news last night is that Americans are becoming less religious. I hope this jerk finds his own personal Jesus in prison who gives him a taste of what he gave his wife. Doubt he can pray that away!
ReplyDeleteSpousal rape has only been illegal in all 50 states since 1994. It happened to me once in the mid-1980s. I was attending a 'Bible-believing' church that taught women to be submissive to my husband and my state laws agreed.
ReplyDeleteot Brancy is proud of Track Palin.
ReplyDelete'This sounds like something my brother would do to protect his sisters from creeps!'
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bristolpalin/2015/11/photo-how-to-deal-with-stalkers/#more-10157
I appreciate your bringing these issues to our attention, Gryph, but I find the photo really disturbing. A mug shot or no photo at all would be preferable to so triggering an image.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad this woman had the guts to speak up. Married, Single, or Asexual, no means no at any point during the encounter. And that goes for both sexes, btw.
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