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Author Message   musicme Citizen Username: Musicme Post Number: 1689 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 3:50 pm:        The feminist bloggers are starting to notice this article in the Nation, about David Hager. He is on the advisory committee to the FDA, the faculty of the University of Kentucky's medical college, and Focus on the Family's Physician Resource Council. He is "a leading Ob-Gyn at Lexington's Central Baptist Hospital." This is a man whose political influence is growing among Christian conservatives and, as a result, in the Republican party. Good Housekeeping has named him "among the best doctors for women in the nation." The Nation article reports that he also repeatedly raped and sodomized his wife for seven years, until she finally filed for divorce. Apparently he also paid her for sex. Until 2000 the Kentucky Penal Code still contained . . . a requirement that [marital rape] be reported within one year of the offense. Their divorce, however, happened in 2002, so it is possible that he could be prosecuted for the rape--apparently a number of his wife's friends knew what was happening. But Linda Carruth Davis (now remarried) "chose not to bring allegations of marital rape into her divorce proceedings" because she did not want to upset her sons. Ironically, and tellingly, her sons were "very angry about the fact that she was insisting on the divorce." Also, "nearly everyone in the Hagers' Christian and medical circles in Lexington had sided with Hager." Nearly every Christian friend they had, and nearly every doctor friend, sided with a man who had raped his wife. It will be interesting to see if, now that the story is out, those same Christians and medical experts continue to do so. If I were a woman in Lexington, KY, I would be feeling very uncomfortable with my obstetrician and my pastor right about now. "I would be asleep, and since [the sodomy was painful and threatening, I woke up. Sometimes I acquiesced once he had started, just to make it go faster, and sometimes I tried to push him off. . . . I would [confront] David later, and he would say, "you asked me to do that," and I would say, "No, I never asked for it." "I would let him sodomize me, and he would leave a check on the dresser." Sex was always a source of conflict in the marriage. Though it wasn't emotionally satisfying for her, Davis says she soon learned that sex could "buy" peace with Hager after a long day of arguing, or insure his forgiveness after she spent too much money. "Sex was coinage; it was a commodity," she said. . . . Finally . . . I said, "you know, David, this is like being a prostitute.". Sometimes Hager would blithely shift from vaginal to anal sex. Davis protested. "He would say, 'Oh, I didn't mean to have anal sex with you; I can't feel the difference,'" Davis recalls incredulously. "And I would say, 'Well then, you're in the wrong business.'" "My sense is that he saw [my narcolepsy] as an opportunity." "The most expedient thing was to try and somehow get it [over with]. In order to keep any peace, I had to maintain the illusion of being available to him." By the 1980s, according to Davis, Hager was pressuring her to let him videotape and photograph them having sex. She consented, and eventually she even let Hager pay her for sex that she wouldn't have otherwise engaged in--for example, $2,000 for oral sex, "though that didn't happen very often because I hated doing it so much. So though it was more painful, I would let him sodomize me, and he would leave a check on the dresser," Davis admitted to me with some embarrassment. This exchange took place almost weekly for several years. Here are some of the things Hager has said: "there is a war going on in this country. . . . And I'm not speaking about the war in Iraq. It's a war being waged against Christians. . . . It wasn't my scientific record that came under scrutiny [at the FDA]. It was my faith." "It wasn't until I began to see how Jesus treated women that I understood how I, as a doctor, should treat them."   Debby Citizen Username: Debby Post Number: 2318 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - 11:03 pm:        Gevalt...   themp Supporter Username: Themp Post Number: 2970 Registered: 12-2001 Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 11:39 am:        Yeah, this one is a little too pungent to touch. Who knows. The guy is probably at least a creepy bible thumping hypocrite.