“Nonviolent” Marital Rape Is “No Crime,” and a Wife Who Refuses Sex for Six Months Is Also Sinning

[Spencer Macnaughton: “What does a nonviolent rape look like?”] Oh, let’s say she just says, ‘I really don’t want to. I’m not into this. I don’t want to, please don’t treat me this way.’ But he says, ‘Too bad.’ You know, he’s just being a boor. He’s being awful. And someone like that should be disciplined by the church, but there was no crime... [SM: “Does she have the right to cut him off for six months?”] No. So if she says, if that situation came to us, and the husband said, ‘Here’s the thing, we’ve been married for five years and we’ve not had sex for the last six months, and she just won’t.’ Right? In this situation, she’s got the problem... [SM: “So in month six, if she is in a space where she doesn’t want to have sex, and he rapes her, is that justified because she, in your view, has held out for too long?”] It’s not justified, but neither is her behavior justified. So that would, basically what you’d have there is a marital mess. And both of them sinning against each other.

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