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.

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    7 months ago

    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

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      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.

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        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.

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            Considering the first “official” Catholic Bible was not assembled until over 300 years after his death, I’m going to say no.

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              I’ll follow this logic path. It was assembled 300 years after his death, but the Catholic Church claim(ed/s) to have God’s phone number through the Pope, so wouldn’t Jesus have been like “yo, pops, you gotta tell them to take out that rapey shit before I get me too’d”.

              Mystery of mysteries.