afas i have no icon angry enough!
Okay the joy at Franken getting that anti-rape law has passed and now rage has replaced it because of some of the pro-rapist GOPers reasons for voting no.
Mike Stark, a blogger with The Crooked Dope, filmed hallway interviews with Sens. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) and asked them about their no votes. Cochran told Stark that rape victims deserve their day in court, but it's not the government's place to dictate the terms of employment contracts.
YES. YES IT FUCKING IS. The job of the government should be to protect its people when other methods have not worked, or wouldn't work as well.
Thune said that he might have supported the amendment if it had been narrowed to cover rape rather than extended to cover other sexual-related abuses.
Guys I just. I don't even fucking know what to say to this bullshit. Making the law inclusive to other types of sexual abuse helps the victims get justice because what constitutes as rape can be very ill defined. But what's more enraging is that this jackass is playing into the very dangerous idea that the only type of sexual abuse that is harmful is rape.