Schafly doesn't think that married women's husbands can rape them

Could you clarify some of the statements that you made in Maine last year about martial rape?

I think that when you get married you have consented to sex. That's what marriage is all about, I don't know if maybe these girls missed sex ed. That doesn't mean the husband can beat you up, we have plenty of laws against assault and battery. If there is any violence or mistreatment that can be dealt with by criminal prosecution, by divorce or in various ways. When it gets down to calling it rape though, it isn't rape, it's a he said-she said where it's just too easy to lie about it.

Was the way in which your statement was portrayed correct?

Yes. Feminists, if they get tired of a husband or if they want to fight over child custody, they can make an accusation of marital rape and they want that to be there, available to them.

So you see this as more of a tool used by people to get out of marriages than as legitimate-

Yes, I certainly do.

Phyllis Schafly, woman, political activist, lawyer, and tool for the right wing does not believe that married women can be raped by their husbands.  She told the Washington University student newspaper those very words.  She is the reason that the majority of people in this country do not have an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Schafly is probably having a rough time of it.  What with Senator Hillary Clinton seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for President, Nancy Pelosi serving as Speaker of the House of Representatives.  One would think that Schafly isn't as influential as she once was, however, if she didn't exist, the right wing would have to invent her.

She is saying that married women lie about rape.  That the lie is used to get out of marriages in which feminist are tired.  She is saying that assault and battery is law enough to prosecute wife beating.  But when a woman gets married that she has consented to sex with her husband and cannot say no. 

Once upon a time it was perfectly legal for a husband to beat his wife.  And it isn't legal for a husband to rape his wife now.

But Phyllis Schafly marches on.  And Washington University gives her honorary degrees.  Rewarding her idiotic statements like the one she made about how English literature classes at Virginia Tech caused the shootings at that campus.

Do you think perhaps she will speak at the Republican National Convention on the State of Women's Affairs?  Oh, I hope so.

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[Anntichrist S. Coulter]

The only reason to put Phyllis up onto a podium is so that she'll be made an easier target for the right sharpshooting woman.

Schafly is about as much a "woman" as I am Dick Cheney.

[Houston Bridges]

Sometimes the things we think we've lost are the things we've either thrown away or misplaced. The thing never stops being, just because it's not found quickly.

You misplaced our friendship. I am unwilling to believe you threw it away. I know I never did, even when I couldn't find it.

[Anntichrist S. Coulter]

Um Houston Bridges? Are you speaking to me or to Jaye?