{"id":1108,"date":"2009-10-02T17:51:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T17:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/10\/out-of-the-mouths-of-comedians-rape-is-rape.html"},"modified":"2009-10-02T17:51:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T17:51:19","slug":"out-of-the-mouths-of-comedians-rape-is-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/10\/out-of-the-mouths-of-comedians-rape-is-rape.html","title":{"rendered":"Out Of The Mouths Of Comedians: Rape Is Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story of Roman Polanski’s long-overdue extradition to the US to face the music for raping a child thirty-some years ago has been making me crazy<\/a>, not least because at the same time as the world (rightly) wrings its hands and wags its fingers and voices its horror<\/a> over evils committed by clergy within the Catholic Church, celebrities, artists and assorted literati bend over backwards, morally, to defend Roman Polanski, who did exactly the same thing<\/i>.<\/p>\n

As I’ve said elsewhere<\/a>, this baffles and sickens me, as a mother, as a woman, as a human being<\/i>. How could anyone, anywhere, think – let alone say, out loud – that the rape of a child is anything other than a terrible crime? And why is it that it takes a comedian on a late night talk show to challenge this patent absurdity?<\/p>\n

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Chris Rock gets it. Yo freaking Gabba Gabba gets it<\/a>. Why isn’t this being proclaimed everywhere?<\/i><\/p>\n

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