F*ckus On The Family's Hager; sodomizing wife-rapist (and Coulter, too!)

[Atman]

Lots to fit into one subject line. It's a shame about the fourish-paragraph rule, so I'll do my best to summarize it here. The Coulter reference? Well, it appears the guy who was recently arrested for heckling Coulter had asked her "You say that you believe in the sanctity of marriage. How do you feel about marriages where the man does nothing but fxck his wife up the ass?"

The kid tried to say the most obscene, outlandish thing he could think of-- and of course he got it exactly-right: literally (inadvertantly) describing Focus On The Family & Bush Admin shill Dr. Hager.

Meet the kid:

http://www.poormojo.org/pmjadaily/archives/003161.html

And now, read about Dr. Hager, Bush appointee to the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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Late last October Dr. W. David Hager, a prominent obstetrician-gynecologist and Bush Administration appointee to the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), took to the pulpit as the featured speaker at a morning service. He stood in the campus chapel at Asbury College, a small evangelical Christian school nestled among picturesque horse farms in the small town of Wilmore in Kentucky's bluegrass region. Hager is an Asburian nabob; his elderly father is a past president of the college, and Hager himself currently sits on his alma mater's board of trustees. Even the school's administrative building, Hager Hall, bears the family name.

That day, a mostly friendly audience of 1,500 students and faculty packed into the seats in front of him. With the autumn sunlight streaming through the stained-glass windows, Hager opened his Bible to the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel and looked out into the audience. "I want to share with you some information about how...God has called me to stand in the gap," he declared. "Not only for others, but regarding ethical and moral issues in our country."

For Hager, those moral and ethical issues all appear to revolve around sex: In both his medical practice and his advisory role at the FDA, his ardent evangelical piety anchors his staunch opposition to emergency contraception, abortion and premarital sex. Through his six books--which include such titles as Stress and the Woman's Body and As Jesus Cared for Women, self-help tomes that interweave syrupy Christian spirituality with paternalistic advice on women's health and relationships--he has established himself as a leading conservative Christian voice on women's health and sexuality.

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Up on the dais, several men seated behind Hager nodded solemnly in agreement. But out in the audience, Linda Carruth Davis--co-author with Hager of Stress and the Woman's Body, and, more saliently, his former wife of thirty-two years--was enraged. "It was the most disgusting thing I've ever heard," she recalled months later, through clenched teeth.

According to Davis, Hager's public moralizing on sexual matters clashed with his deplorable treatment of her during their marriage. Davis alleges that between 1995 and their divorce in 2002, Hager repeatedly sodomized her without her consent. (AKA anal rape.) Several sources on and off the record confirmed that she had told them it was the sexual and emotional abuse within their marriage that eventually forced her out. "I probably wouldn't have objected so much, or felt it was so abusive if he had just wanted normal sex all the time," she explained to me. "But it was the painful, invasive, totally nonconsensual nature of the sex that was so horrible."

MUCH more at: The Nation

[dbeach]

1. Was'nt the Nazi hierarchy into kinky sex while acting like Puritans..

fascists and their triple standards..


its not OK for you
its OK for me
BUT I will keep saying its not OK for you

[TWiley]

9. "Authority" only authors the rules.

Evidently, they are not expected to live by them. Consider the DeLay republicans. They simply author new rules rather than prosecute one of their own.

[bunkerbuster1]

2. Funny, when I first read about Hager

I figured it must be an old story, that it must've been the inspiration for that Coulter question.

Notice that I never assumed such a guy as Hager would face any serious repercussions for what he'd done to his wife.

IOKIYAR, after all.

[FuzzySlippers]

3. I read this article last night.

Hager is one sick, depraved motherfucker. Sodomizing his wife while she was in a narcoleptic state. Earlier in their marriage, he would switch from vaginal to anal sex and then claim it was unintentional--that he couldn't tell the DIFFERENCE. The man's an OBGYN for Gawd's sake! These RW creeps just keep crawling out of the woodwork.

[DebinTx]

4. Pretty sick MFer IMO.

I hope his wife can gut his political aspirations by going public with her story.

[Celebration]

5. recommended!!

Everyone should know about this. This article lays out the whole thing. I would say that Hager could be the "poster person" for whacko Christian fundamentalism. I find it pretty interesting that his ex-wife went public with this. But here is what happened-- she was married for so long with NO VOICE. Good story about God not striking her dead for having an affair (who could blame her). When nothing happened, she took that as a sign and filed for divorce!!

[enigmatic]

6. Oh man...

Another for "Family Values". Ugh.

[RBHam]

7. The Fundies have sullied good, clean anal sex...

I don't know if I can ever feel the innocence again...

[Snotcicles]

14. What the difference between oral sex and anal sex?

Oral sex makes your whole day.
Anal sex makes your hole weak.

[Pushed To The Left]

21. There is nothing wrong with anal sex

or any other kind of sex, as long as it is consensual.

[TWiley]

23. Good lord !

LAMO

[Snotcicles]

25. Hey you read it n/t

[TWiley]

8. Corn-holin' was the prefered birth control technique in the 50's

Maybe that is why fundies hate birth control so much. It removes the obvious excuse for pokin the cubby-hole from them.

Do they have a secret motive for draggin us back to the "glory" days of pre 50's America?

[smoogatz]

15. I was going to say something funny about Catholic girls in the 70's

but I won't, because it would probably get deleted by the mods.

[librechik]

17. cept in Georgia, where the mules are so sexy

no male can resist them.

[TWiley]

24. "Dick, Colin, and Bush" Maybe they get this idea from pubbie leadership

Sounds like the title for a cheap dirty movie doesn't it? The republican fundamentalists have been fantasizing about their bumper stickers too long.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Insanity: These people would be against legalizing prostitution

and taking care of their needs legally and consensually. Of course, that would be going against the bible or something.

Is it because they feel they can't admit and consensually fulfill their drives?

[seventythree]

11. I hate these people!!!!!

[smoogatz]

12. Pretty much what the religious right is trying to do to the Constitution

Talk about a stealth agenda!

[Snotcicles]

13. Sounds like the makings of a serial rapist killer n/t

[noiretextatique]

16. so...this rapist is an "authority" on women's sexuality?

:puke: just when i thought i'd conquered my hate impluse :grr:

[MissMarple]

18. Oh. My. God.

I am ...virtually speechless.

[MissMarple]

19. And this is what the sicko ladies of the religious right think of Hager

It's in the last paragraph. If his wife had had him prosecuted he would have gone to jail. But no. They want to believe the lies he tells.


"By 1995, according to Davis's account, Hager's treatment of his wife had moved beyond morally reprehensible to potentially felonious. It was a uniquely stressful year for Davis. Her mother, dying of cancer, had moved in with the family and was in need of constant care. At the same time, Davis was suffering from a seemingly inexplicable exhaustion during the day. She began exhibiting a series of strange behaviors, like falling asleep in such curious places as the mall and her closet. Occasionally she would--as she describes it--"zone out" in midsentence in a conversation, and her legs would buckle. Eventually, Davis was diagnosed as having narcolepsy, a neurological disorder that affects the brain's ability to regulate normal sleep-wake cycles.

For Davis, the diagnosis spelled relief, and a physician placed her on several medications to attain "sleep hygiene," or a consistent sleep pattern. But Davis says it was after the diagnosis that the period of the most severe abuse began. For the next seven years Hager sodomized Davis without her consent while she slept roughly once a month until their divorce in 2002, she claims. "My sense is that he saw as an opportunity," Davis surmises. Sometimes she fought Hager off and he would quit for a while, only to circle back later that same night; at other times, "the most expedient thing was to try and somehow get it . In order to keep any peace, I had to maintain the illusion of being available to him." At still other moments, she says, she attempted to avoid Hager's predatory advances in various ways--for example, by sleeping in other rooms in the house, or by struggling to stay awake until Hager was in a deep sleep himself. But, she says, nothing worked. One of Davis's lifelong confidantes remembers when Davis first told her about the abuse. " was very angry and shaken," she recalled.

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Meanwhile, David Hager's stock has been rising among conservatives. Though his term on the FDA panel is set to expire on June 30, observers on both sides of the political divide anticipate his reappointment. In March I spoke with Janice Shaw Crouse, executive director and senior fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute, the research arm of Concerned Women for America. She is one of Hager's staunchest advocates in Washington (some credit her with engineering his FDA appointment); Crouse sits alongside Hager on Asbury College's board of trustees. In May, when informed of the allegations against him, she declined to revise her earlier statement. "I would not be at all surprised to see Dr. Hager elevated to a higher position or to another very influential position when it comes to women's care," she told me. "Because he has shown that he does care about women regardless of...the issues that people want to try to raise.... When people try to discredit him, he continues on. He hasn't caved in, and he hasn't waffled. He has been a gentleman. He is a person of character and integrity, and I think people admire that."

[Pushed To The Left]

20. I wonder if he supported sodomy laws

The right wing wants to throw people in jail for doing consensually what Hager did nonconsenually. The only freedom the religious right cares about is their own.

[Zorbuddha]

22. Good work!!!!!!!

Great post.