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The above Huffington Post headline and image has wingnut heads exploding all over Twitter.

The blogosphere imploded today when Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) appeared on a talk show to declare that women who are “legitimately raped” do not get pregnant. And therefore abortion should be illegal in all cases. Akin’s name and “legitimate rape” are now top trending topics on Twitter. Even the vicious teabaggers at Twitchy are appalled. Akin is running to unseat …

Last week a woman attending a gay celebration in a Grand Rapids park secretly recorded a group of Black Hebrew Israelite preachers as they threatened to rape and murder the gay out of her. David Edwards reports at Raw Story: In a video posted to YouTube, several protesters with Bibles can be seen shouting at a woman celebrating in the …

A Swedish judge has ruled that a transgender rape victim wasn’t really raped because her assailant thought she was a “real woman.” “The intended crime never had the possibility of being fulfilled,” explained judge Dan Sjöstedt of the Örebro District Court to local newspaper Nerikes Allehanda. When the 61-year-old man had tried to commit the rape in Örebro, he had …

Details are scant so far. Investigators are set to review security video from the popular gay piano bar Duplex after a woman told police she was raped there hours after the gay pride parade passed through the Village, according to sources. The woman told authorities she was attacked by a man in the bathroom of the bar on Christopher Street …

Michael Kobulnicky, spokesperson for the San Diego Tea Party, has been arrested for rape and assault. Kobulnicky is accused of a Feb. 25 abduction and sexual assault of a 56-year-old woman who was walking home near Linda Vista Road in Fiesta Island. The woman was pulled into a car and assaulted, then left on the island, police said. Surveillance footage …

(Via JMG reader Sara)

Thousands marched through lower Manhattan yesterday at Slutwalk 2011, an event meant to encourage women to report rape and to denounce “slut shaming.” The walk got its start in Toronto after a local cop told women to stop “dressing like they want to be raped.” A similar thought was voiced just this week by Brooklyn police who are seeking a …

A Seattle man on trial for the 2009 rape and fatal stabbing of a lesbian couple told the court that God had instructed him to commit the crime. “I was there and I was told by my God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to attack my enemies, and I did so,” Isaiah Kalebu said under questioning by one …

Over the last seven days… Virginia: Pastor Jason Bolton charged with stalking an underage girl. He has a previous arrest for statutory rape.New York: Rabbi Nechemya Weberman arrested for molestation of 12 year-old girl.Georgia: Pastor Albert Turnell charged with possession and distribution of child porn.Alabama: Pastor Michael Wilkerson charged with writing a bad check to purchase $111K Mercedes. He previously …

Over the last seven days… Nevada: Pastor Otis Holland arrested for molesting a seven year-old girl. Holland was arrested last year on similar charges.New York: Pastor Jason LaPierre arrested for embezzling over $400,000 from a credit union.Ontario: Father James Boudreau arrested for sexual assault on a child.Belgium: Father Eric Dejaeger accused of molesting multiple children in Canada. He has already …

Over the last seven days… Virginia: Pastor J.P. Hale sentenced to six years in prison for indecent liberties with a child.Pennsylvania: Father Robert Timchak sentenced to six years in prison for possession of child pornography.North Carolina: Rev. Walter Donald Bradshaw arrested for the rape of an 11 year-old girl.South Carolina: Pastor David K. Love arrested for the murder of a …

“I think that two wrongs don’t make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade. Well …

A South African doctor has invented a female condom barbed with sharp teeth. The device is meant to be worn by women as a rape deterrent. According to Human Rights Watch, South Africa has one of the highest rape rates in the world, and many women in the country live in constant fear of being attacked. One South African doctor, …

Our second American Talibangelists post for today: An anonymous Christian group is approaching women in Virginia and handing them leaflets that advise that their clothing is “ungodly” and because men cannot withstand such temptation, they may be deservingly facilitating their own rapes. Here’s what a young woman working a fast food drive-thru window experienced: “Even though nothing is showing, you’re …

Former USMC Sgt. Charles Dyer is the organizer of a Tea Party offshoot called the Oath Keepers, a group dedicated to recruiting military personnel into the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Dyer works as a liaison between militia groups and the Tea Party and last year spoke at a Tea Party rally in Oklahoma. On Tuesday, Dyer was arrested …

Several times in recent weeks, commenters on this and other LGBT blogs have feuded over reader statements that the perpetrators of hate crimes deserve to get raped in prison. This has generated a number of complaining emails to me, including a couple from LGBT prisoner activists. Pertinent to that issue, the photos above are part of a new awareness campaign …

The trial of three men accused of the murder and gang-rape of lesbian South African soccer star Eudy Simelane has begun. Eudy Simelane loved football. In other countries the 29-year-old who rose through the ranks to become captain of the women’s national football team would have been feted as a star. In South Africa it cost her her life. The …