CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Married people in West Virginia could be charged with certain acts of sexual abuse against their spouses for the first time under a bill passed by the state Senate. The bill pushed by former prosecuting attorney Republican Sen. Ryan Weld would remove marriage as a defense to first- and third-degree sexual assault. There are two crimes of sexual violence outlined in West Virginia code. One is penetrative assault and the other is the forcible touching of a person’s sexual organs, breasts, and some other areas by another person. For the latter offense, there exists a martial exemption that shields a person from conviction if the crime is perpetrated against their spouse.
This is functional conservatism. Of course they are going to get to all this human rights shit eventually, if we’d all just quit whining for one goddamn second.
You have to remember, this is an ideology that is essentially built around procrastination.
Ya know what, there’s a lot of truth to this. Some of it will get done, it’s just that you gotta wait for at least one generation to die to do anything major.
I’ve heard conservatism described as “keeping what we have because it’s pretty good” but that’s always felt pretty hollow to me.
It’s more “keeping what he have because we consider an unequal society to be natural and just”. So anything that preserves or increases inequality is considered a good thing by conservatives. And any moves to decrease inequality (see “wokeism” and any number of catchphrases that mean the same thing) is considered harmful.
Any actions contrary to that usually only occurs when they are afraid they’ll lose power, or they (or their direct family) are directly affected by it.