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Republican Enabling (51 instances)

295: Republican Voters

Enabling, Rape Culture
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When Republican voters continue to vote for sexual predators and their enablers they become accomplices in creating a culture that tolerates sexual predators. Take Roy Moore who himself admitted he was dating teenagers when he was in his thirties, he received 91% of the vote. Jim Jordan is not just some legislator from Ohio, he’s a party leader even though several college wrestlers have come forward revealing they went to Jordan for help when molested by his colleague and instead of reporting as was his duty, he helped cover up the molestation of at least 177 students. A Republican candidate for local office won his election even after confessing to murdering his wife, admittedly this was a small local election, but come on people, leave the line blank.

278: Republican State Legislatures

Enabling, Rape Culture
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Republicans control several state legislatures and are the major impediment to reforming the various state statutes of limitations (SOL) preventing victims of child sexual abuse victims from seeking justice. Child USA tracks the progress of SOL reform in the states. Children who are abused are often not ready to report until they have processed what happened to them. Some states set an age limit for reporting and filing a civil case that favors abusers. Republican states have been slow to reform or eliminate their statute of limitations. In some states the Democratic-controlled body has passed reform several times to see it die in the Republican-controlled other body.

265: Frank Page

Enabling, Rape Culture
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Frank Page was president of the Southern Baptist Convention and president of the SBC Executive Committee until 2018 when he resigned due to what he called a “morally inappropriate relationship.” That is not why he’s on this list because it may have been with a consenting adult. He is on this list because of the decades long Southern Baptist Convention coverup of pastoral sexual abuse of children and church members. Page suggested survivor activists were just setting up the church for lawsuits.

210: Joe Arpaio

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape Culture
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Joa Arpaio is most well-known for glorying in abusive prison conditions and his racist hatred of Latinos. He was Trump’s favorite sheriff and was convicted of contempt of court for refusing a judge’s order to stop racial profiling. Trump promptly pardoned him. However, contemptible as his treatment of prisoners and immigrants was, he is on the list for his office’s mishandling of more than 400 sexual assault cases.

207: Don Boys

Enabling, Rape Culture
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He is also a rape apologist. He denies that Kavanaugh could have raped Christine Blasey Ford because she did not scream. She needed witnesses! He argues that if a woman does not fight and does not scream, it is not rape. It is a false accusation, not rape. When he was criticized for his ignorant and false arguments, he doubled down. Oddly enough, he is eager to call Black men, Muslim men, and South African men rapists.

190: Milo Yiannopolous

Enabling, Rape Culture
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Milo Yiannopoulos defended pedophilia. In the clip, Yiannopoulos said the age of consent was “not this black-and-white thing” and that relationships “between younger boys and older men … can be hugely positive experiences”.

He went on to suggest that sex between “younger boys” and older men could be a “coming-of-age relationship … in which those older men help those younger boys discover who they are”

188: Bob Jones University

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape Culture
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Bob Jones University has a long history of blaming the victims of sexual assault–even when they were assaulted elsewhere. In 2011, the role of BJU board member Chuck Phelps in covering up the rape of a 15-year-old and his demand that she apologize to the congregation for allowing herself to be raped.led to some BJU students speaking up about the University’s blaming victims of sexual assault.

In response, BJU hired an independent organization, GRACE, Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment, to investigate the matter in 2012. They let people make reports online and promised to protect students from repercussions when they did interviews. As they neared completion of their report, they were fired. The backlash led to rehired GRACE whose report disclosed a pattern of covering up sexual assault and punishing victims.

186: George Faught

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George Faught was the state representative of Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA, when in his zealous defense of banning abortion in cases of rape and incest, he said pregnancy is how “God can bring beauty from ashes.” In the debate on his bill banning abortion in the case of fetal abnormalities, a Democratic pro-choice representative asked him if rape was the will of God. It’s evident from his response that he thinks so. He left the House to run for Congress, unsuccessfully.

183: Ken Starr

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape Culture, Uncategorized
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Ken Starr is most infamous as the sex-obsessed independent counsel who chose to include prurient sexual details in The Starr Report and in the Senate trial questioning of Monica Lewinsky. That is not why he is featured on this list even though his desire to humiliate and debase Lewinsky certainly displayed misogyny. However, it was in his role as the President of the largest Baptist school in America, Baylor University, where he earned complete ignominy by covering up the rapes of several women enrolled as students there. Protecting the football players was much more important than protecting women. It seems even today Baylor University would like to pretend it never happened.

182: David Garland

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up
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David Garland was the interim president of Baylor University, the largest Baptist school in America and an extremely conservative school. He was appointed after Ken Starr resigned in the midst of the rape scandal. The school commissioned an investigation and several women came forward filing a federal lawsuit claiming Baylor did not protect female students…