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Jesus is pro Rape?
"Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst." – C.S. Lewis
Anyone that chooses to attend that fourth rate University deserves what they get.
“Liberty University, where we welcome you into the open pants…um…arms of Christ!”
Oh, they were just cosplaying as Adam and Eve right before God chased them out of the Gadda-Da-Vida.
In my book Liberty University is a loony institution. Why anybody would aspire to go there for higher learning is beyond me. This story reaffirms that conviction.
No, they don’t
WHY does Liberty get ‘federal funds’…800 million??? C’mon. Religious, private…doesn’t that go against EVERYTHING we purport to support?
If you go to a university that really considers women to be second class beings, you really cannot expect the school to take any sexual assault seriously. The Title IX office is only there to fulfill federal requirements so the university can rake in as much government money as possible.
They should at very least apply the remedies that the Bible prescribes. (Wonder if it applies if the woman is not a virgin)
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 “If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days."
Exodus 22:16-17 “If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride price for her and make her his wife. If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride price for virgins."
Apparently their Jesus™ is.
Apparently, lots of bible belts are being unbuckled at Liberty Biberty U.
Yes, but it says “virgin.” Clearly, if she was letting him rape her, she’s a slut and not a virgin.
Without fear of reprisal.
mondfledermaus,
Exactly! “Give me that old time religion,…It’s good enough for me.”
I have loathed Liberty University ever since its founding. Jerry Falwell was slime.
These are 18 year old kids coming from deeply religious families who probably aren’t given much choice about where to go to college. They probably went to religious schools their whole lives if they weren’t home schooled.
Most of them have probably never heard of title 9 - as is obvious by them not knowing any of their rights after they’ve been assaulted. They are mostly deeply sheltered kids that come from privileged environments that never taught them to think outside of a very specific and limited world view.
To say - “you should have known” about any aspect of this story about these victims ignores the fact that nothing central in these kids lives prepared them for this eventuality - not their parents, not their schooling, not their church, not their friends
Sadly, what some of them “get” is life tenure as a federal judge only six years out of law school.
