Madness in Maryland continues...

Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:00

Last month, PROTECT launched a campaign to shake up the outrageous status quo at the Maryland State House. Last week, a member of the ruling elite there reminded Maryland voters why this campaign will be so important.

Delegate Joseph Vallario, the Chairman of the Maryland House Judiciary Committee, reached back to the 1600's to back up his views on rape. His committee was debating a bill that would deny rapists custody and visitation of their victims' children. Sound like a no-brainer? Not in Annapolis. "Rape is an accusation easily to be made, hard to be proved, and harder yet to be defended by the party accused," Vallario said, quoting England's Lord Hale.

Vallario's boss, House Speaker Michael Busch, still doesn't get it that with the hot water rising, Vallario is a millstone around his party's neck. The Washington Post reports that Busch "defended Vallario as a 'model citizen' and said he had been married to the same woman for about 40 years..."

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