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To: SamuraiScot

Per Merriam-Webster rape is:

unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against the will

If a spouse is forced against her will to have sex, this certainly qualifies by definition as rape.

No other way of looking at it.


214 posted on 11/01/2007 11:27:19 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: Red in Blue PA

This thread is so full of fail it boggles the mind.

I pray Bill ORLY doesn’t get a hold of it.


215 posted on 11/01/2007 11:30:24 AM PDT by Constantine XIII
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To: Red in Blue PA
"unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against the will"

If a spouse is forced against her will to have sex, this certainly qualifies by definition as rape.

The dictionary definition you cite contradicts what you wrote below it. "Unlawful" intercourse means sex outside of marriage. It has no other meaning. If it's both forcible and unlawful, it's rape.

Denounce evil husbands by all means, and with all kinds of names. Just don't call sex within marriage rape. It doesn't fit the definition.

235 posted on 11/01/2007 2:10:39 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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