He's right about date rape...
Date rape is not rape at all....
Date rape should be treated differently from attacks on women by strangers, John Redwood has said.
The former cabinet minister - now a senior Tory party adviser - suggested rape accusations made by women against their partners should be treated as "disagreements" between lovers.
Labour ministers seized on the remarks, which were made in the wake of Tory leader David Cameron's pledge to toughen up rape laws.
Mr Redwood wrote on his website blog: "They [Labour] decided to set date rape alongside stranger rape.
"None of us want men to rape women, but there is a difference between a man using unreasonable force to assault a woman on the street, and a disagreement between two lovers over whether there was consent on one particular occasion.
"Labour's doctrine of equivalence has led to jury scepticism about many rape claims, in situations where it is the man's word against the woman's and where they had agreed to spend the evening or night together."
posted by GayandRight @ 10:02 PM
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Rape, is not about payment for a dinner two people might have shared together, it is a violation against a person, who does not consent. Rape by someone you know, is still rape.
Your brief commentary on this article "Date rape is not rape at all..." is grotesque. Although there is a reasonable argument to be made to differentiate between "date" rape and stranger rape. To even remotely say that it "is not rape" is grotesque and offensive. Not giving consent is always rape.
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