Re: The same applies to the unique conjugal rights—they have traditionally been regarded as rights—that a man and wife have to each other’s person. Talking about “rape” in this context is like bringing trespassing charges against you for trying to move into an apartment you’ve rented.
So IOW spousal rape is not possible in your opinion?
So many moronic posts.....so little time.
Correct. Note, we're not talking about exotic threats or battery here. But just the marital act. And of course it's a given that husbands and wives accomodate each other from day to day as a matter of practicality and good-will. But underlying it all is that a real obligation has been conferred that binds in both directions. This was what the Leftist legal theorists have targeted. They want to dissociate sex from any unique connection to marriage. In the Catholic Church, on the other hand, if a marriage hasn't been consummated, it's not a valid marriage.
If you don't see sex as an exclusive right that married people have to each other, then, with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, you might be a Leftist—without actually intending all the chaos that follows from that.