http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/16/world/asia/indonesia-rape-comments-controversy/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
An Indonesian Judge has said something that has essentially killed every chance he had of being elected for the Indonesian Supreme Court. He said this: "Consideration needs to be taken thoroughly for the imposition of death penalty for a rapist because in a rape case both the rapist and the victim enjoy it."
He said this in response a question about the death penalty being used on rapists.
This picture shows a protest for anti-rape regulations in Indonesia.
Now, I find this story both awful and amusing. Awful for obvious reason's. The fact that someone could say something as stupid and inappropriate as this is beyond me. And I find it amusing because he killed every chance he had ever had of becoming a member of the Supreme Court there. This case is very similar to the case in America during the elections, of Republican Todd Akin, and Richard Mourdock. Todd Akin was running for Senate when he said this: "First of all, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try and shut that whole thing down." This idiotic statement of course killed every chance of him winning his race. And Mourdock said "Life is that gift from God that I think even if life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen." Again, a very strange thing to say, because Church and State should be separate. All in all, this was awful thing to say and it clearly lost him his race.
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