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.

  • @Spitzspot
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    343 months ago

    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.

    • Flying Squid
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      273 months ago

      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.

      • @Spitzspot
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        113 months ago

        Doesn’t he have final editorial control?

        • Flying Squid
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          I don’t think anyone gets final editorial control. Hence the endless sects.

        • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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          103 months ago

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

          • @WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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.