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01.15.14 | 1:43 pm

This is a what a Republican running for Congress in Virginia said in 2002: It’s just too hard to prosecute marital rape “when they’re living together, sleeping in the same bed, she’s in a nightie, there’s no injury and so forth or anything.”

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