On Air Personality and leader of the Free the Sheeple movement, Daddy Freeze, has said that rapists marry their victims is in accord with the Bible.
Freeze stated this while reacting to the decision of the Turkish government to introduce a new law that will allow men accused of rape, avoid prosecution by marrying their victims.
According to Daddy Freeze, a portion of the bible permits rapist marrying their victims. He wrote:
”Yes, this is biblical!
Personally, I do not support this move.
However, it’s scriptural and they got this from exactly the same place tithing and first fruit came from; the old expired covenant.
Daddy Freeze
Christians who refuse to abandon the old law for selfish personal reasons end up slaves to it.
Deuteronomy 22
New International Version
[28] If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, [29] he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives”.
Many Nigerians are reacting to this latest trend with anger and unbelief.
One Segzy said:
I think a lot of care has to be applied here. First of all, the Bible does not permit a rapist to marry the victim. The Bible subjects the rapist to the victim because he violated her. So in Bible terms, it is not a permission but a punishment for the rapist and this applies only if the girl is a virgin. The rapist is also not allowed to leave the woman as long as he lives no matter what. He will pay all the monies required to marry the girl as well. That is the punishment at that time in history because at that time, no one would marry a woman who had been raped. Hence, rather than allow the victim to suffer alone because she had been raped, the rapist was subjected to her. Today, the situation is different. A rape victim can easily find a nice suitor and there are common laws which sets punishments for the rapist. The point I am making here is, there are things that happened in history which are no longer practical and forcing them on the world today will only cause chaos. For example, Quran 4:34 allows you to beat your wife if she is rebellious. But in today’s world, that will be ridiculous. Hence, all the holy books have to be read within the context of the time they were put together. May God bless us all.
One lady Olawumi asked: What if five men rape a woman, will she marry five of them?” This is one of the worst things Turkey can come up with. Women all over the world should rise up against this injustice and demand that rapists be jailed instead of marrying their victims as compensation. That’s hogwash.
I personally think talking about this and considering it is an insult to rape victims. How do these men come up with such nonsense when they are not women and they don’t know what it means and how it feels to be raped? This is absurd to say the least. Women should stand against this silly law.
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Absolute nonsense