The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Apparently not all male Republican politicians received the memo that they should never speak about the following topic: Rape. Instead of just voting on a Utah measure which would specify what constituted as "consent" and "rape," Representative Brian Greene of Pleasant Grove decided to make his concerns about the bill known, when he said this: "If an individual has sex with their wife while she is unconscious ... a prosecutor could then charge that spouse with rape, theoretically. That makes sense in a first date scenario, but to me, not where people have a history of years of sexual activity." Yes, he actually said that... He later attempted to elaborate on his comment, perhaps hoping it would limit the inevitable backlash he was going to receive, but just dug himself in a deeper hole by saying this: "I'm not at all trying to justify sexual activity with an unconscious person. It's abhorrent to me. [But I question whether sex with an ...