[BlogTrail: The following comes from The OmbudsGod, who got it from ABCwatch, who got it from The Australian, from which the following is taken.] Feminists (and others) should think twice before embracing multiculturalism and its cousin, moral relativism.
A NORTHERN Territory Supreme Court judge has reluctantly sentenced a 50-year-old tribal Aboriginal man to 24 hours in prison for having unlawful intercourse with his promised 15-year-old wife, saying the matter should never have come to court.
Justice John Gallop said Jackie Pascoe Jamilmira was exercising his conjugal rights in traditional society and the girl “knew what was expected of her”….
When asked why he had sex with a 15-year-old, Pascoe told police: “She is my promised wife. I have rights to touch her body.” Asked if he knew he had committed an offence, he said: “Yes, I know. It’s called carnal knowledge, but its Aboriginal custom
Multi-cultural (1) paternalistic (2) racism (3) at its best.
1. Their culture is different, leave it alone. I never did agree with the Star Trek Federation on that… Ok, it’s different, and it might be counter–productive to make it over into a duplicate of ours – but I go with the man who got suttee outlawed: “I will respect your right to burn widows on their husband’s funeral pyre, if you respect my right to hang the participants.”
2. “She knew what was expected of her.” Well, yes – and objected, which is why her parents and their friend rushed things before her reluctance could become effective refusal. The judge is saying women should not object to being sold for sex and labor if someone expects them to be so treated. What proce does the learned gentleman expect for his daughter?
Sod’em knows we expect him to be defeated, one way or another, but noone – including this twerp – expects him to just roll over because of such expectations.
3. Well, they are not descended from northern Europeans, so they cannot be expected to understand such things.
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Idgits, all of ’em…