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Archae

(46,356 posts)
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 04:44 PM Sep 2013

"Christian" speaker at Patrck Henry college excuses rapists...

"It's the feminists' fault!"

Patrick Henry College Speaker Excuses Rape, Blames Mass Incarceration on Feminists

Submitted by Miranda Blue on Monday, 9/16/2013 4:32 pm

A mandatory lecture given to the students of the Christian conservative Patrick Henry College on Friday offered apologies for rape, domestic violence and child abuse, and blamed American mass incarceration on feminists’ insistance on prosecuting sexual violence.

Patrick Henry professor Stephen Baskerville, a so-called “men’s rights” advocate, delivered the college’s annual “Faith and Reason” lecture, Libby Anne reported at Patheos. Baskerville started off with his thesis that feminists and Islamists are working together to push Christians out of public life, sort of like the alliance between Hitler and Stalin:

"Though they claim to advance rights, or equality, or justice – values that in their place may be seductively legitimate – the real aim is power – or as currently phrased, “empowerment.” In comparison with this shared common goal, differences in contentare secondary. This is why alliances are readily formed between seemingly incompatible agendas: Hitler and Stalin, or Islamists and feminists. “Power is the alpha and the omega of contemporary Communism,” wrote Milovan Djilas during the repression of the 1950s.“Ideas, philosophical principles, and moral considerations…– all can be changed and sacrificed. But not power."

Feminists, he argues, have used the sexual revolution to impose “state repression” and “transformed our government into a matriarchal leviathan” by criminalizing rape, domestic violence and child abuse. Baskerville cites the work of University of Pennsylvania professor Marie Gottschalk to claim that the criminalization of sexual violence has led to the United States’ historic levels of mass incarceration. Gottschalk argued that women’s groups’ working with law and order groups in the 1960s and ‘70s “contributed to a more punitive climate,” not that the criminalization of sexual violence led to mass incarceration. But no matter— in the prosecution of rape and domestic violence, Baskerville sees “our own homegrown version of Stalinism”:

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/patrick-henry-college-speaker-excuses-rape-blames-mass-incarceration-feminists#sthash.Y8E55Rfp.dpuf

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"Christian" speaker at Patrck Henry college excuses rapists... (Original Post) Archae Sep 2013 OP
Morons Abound. MineralMan Sep 2013 #1
Talk about a WTF moment. hrmjustin Sep 2013 #2
Oh I see! He is afraid to share power with women! Rex Sep 2013 #3
Amazing there are still people like this treestar Sep 2013 #4
It's amazing to me Dpm12 Sep 2013 #5
More confirmation LostOne4Ever Sep 2013 #6
The real Patrick Henry would have responded by puking in his mouth derby378 Sep 2013 #7
"Baskerville isn't even worthy to kiss the butt of Henry's horse" Kber Sep 2013 #9
Yeah, I've been noticing how islamists and feminists tend to have the same views enough Sep 2013 #8
the crazy just never ends, does it? gopiscrap Sep 2013 #10
Sickening. Thanks for posting. So many denominations preach this, unfortunately. LiberalLoner Sep 2013 #11
He's a weirdo ismnotwasm Sep 2013 #12
Smelly fart noises Solly Mack Sep 2013 #13
Grotesque. And this was a "mandatory" class! riderinthestorm Sep 2013 #14
The "feminists" criminalized rape, domestic violence... awoke_in_2003 Sep 2013 #15
Think about this guy next time a politician boasts about being "pro family". alp227 Sep 2013 #16
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
3. Oh I see! He is afraid to share power with women!
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 04:50 PM
Sep 2013

Instead of all those paragraphs of total garbage, he could have saved everyone some time by saying he is afraid of women!

Typical MRA asshole imo.

derby378

(30,252 posts)
7. The real Patrick Henry would have responded by puking in his mouth
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 04:55 PM
Sep 2013

When his wife Sarah went mad, he treated her with as much care and dignity as he could provide until her death, refusing to commit her to a crude psychiatric facility where she would have been chained to the wall in filthy conditions.

Baskerville isn't even worthy to kiss the butt of Henry's horse.

Kber

(5,043 posts)
9. "Baskerville isn't even worthy to kiss the butt of Henry's horse"
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 04:59 PM
Sep 2013

Besides, he might enjoy that too much.

enough

(13,262 posts)
8. Yeah, I've been noticing how islamists and feminists tend to have the same views
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 04:58 PM
Sep 2013

on rape and domestic violence.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
15. The "feminists" criminalized rape, domestic violence...
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 06:41 PM
Sep 2013

and child abuse? Oh, those shameless hussies. I hope this guy gets asshole cancer.

alp227

(32,064 posts)
16. Think about this guy next time a politician boasts about being "pro family".
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 08:05 PM
Sep 2013

Or about those "Men's Rights" and "Father's Rights" activist groups...they're just fronts for the misogynistic rape apologist thugs of the USA.

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