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interesting dialogue/sparring/ on Patch news article about the man accused of rape in Wainscott this summer. What was not mentioned and stands out to me, is that the accused is married. What was he doing out in a bar without his wife?Celebrating on his birthday, no less? Where was Mrs. Lee?? 
 Am I saying that married men whose wives are not out with them are in danger of committing rape? Of course not. I am saying that married men (and married women too) have No business being out in bars or parties without their spouses. Danger. Trouble. Alcohol is too uninhibiting and the b.s. and male ego starts flying high. Not good for the marriage. Bad. Danger. Unity speaks volumes. People should be trustworthy on their own, but why borrow trouble? 
We have become an anything goes society with men and women acting like they are teenagers, with no rules, no consequences, when that ship sailed. That  this accused rapist's wife stands by him, is her call. Perhaps she is forgiving. He is lucky she does not kick him in the groin as the alleged victim supposedly did. Which we do not know yet for sure.  He deserves nothing less. And a whole lot more. 
I am weary of the whole thing, the thing being anything goes and people have no respect for their own spouse's or their marriages and neither do the people they come across. You know someone is
married, have some respect for yourself and move on. The idiot who cheats is a loser. And he or she will do it to you in due time. As far as the crime of rape? That should be punishable as the act it is, harmful and damaging. A man who forces himself on a woman is not a man, he is a loser. The truth will certainly surface in this case. But whether or not the woman was raped by the married man or sex was consensual, is almost besides the point. Why was a married man pursuing another woman? That is the crime. I hope Mrs. Lee finds the truth and dishes out her own justice to the sorry excuse for a husband. 

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