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...would like to register my quite definite support of the Date Rape Task Force's definition of rape as sex without specific consent. The opposing position endorsed by the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH), requiring clear evidence of dissent, or evidence of threats, intimidation and/or coercion, would put the burden on the woman to dissent--that is, a burden of action, not proof. If the definition of rape necessitates explicit dissent, the investigation of any rape will focus on the actions of the woman rather than of the man--his explicit concern for and request of the woman...
...church en masse or to go around ripping up their own photos of the pope. All she wants is for people everywhere to realize that there are some inescapable problems with the Catholic hierarchy that have persisted for over a millennium and will not go away simply by stifling dissent...
...surprising that the Catholic clergy would want stifle dissent. After all, they have a vested interest in keeping their titles and privileges, even if it means withholding the truth from their followers. It does not take a bleeding-heart liberal or a historical revisionist to acknowledge that countless atrocities have been committed over the years in the name of the Catholic Church...
Insisting that a specific statement of dissent must be registered before date rape can be legally recognized, the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH) issued this month a revised response to last spring's Date Rape Task Force report...
...CLUH insists that if there is no clear evidence that dissent was expressed, if no threats, intimidation, and/or coercion were employed, and if the alleged victim did not lack the ability to dissent, any notion of due process requires that no guilt of any sort be found," said CLUH's statement...