Liberal or Conservative? VII - Revealed

He's not just conservative. He's one of those faaaareaky conservatives. He was also Bush's nomination to head the FDA Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee.

The hypocrisy is stunning..

I found his email address.. Add him to your pal list and ask him about forced sodomy next time you see him on-line.

mailto:wdhager@aol.com

link:

Late last October Dr. W. David Hager, a prominent obstetrician-gynecologist and Bush Administration appointee to the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), took to the pulpit as the featured speaker at a morning service. He stood in the campus chapel at Asbury College, a small evangelical Christian school nestled among picturesque horse farms in the small town of Wilmore in Kentucky's bluegrass region. Hager is an Asburian nabob; his elderly father is a past president of the college, and Hager himself currently sits on his alma mater's board of trustees. Even the school's administrative building, Hager Hall, bears the family name.

That day, a mostly friendly audience of 1,500 students and faculty packed into the seats in front of him. With the autumn sunlight streaming through the stained-glass windows, Hager opened his Bible to the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel and looked out into the audience. "I want to share with you some information about how...God has called me to stand in the gap," he declared. "Not only for others, but regarding ethical and moral issues in our country."

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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. 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.'"

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.

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For the next seven years Hager sodomized Davis without her consent while she slept roughly once a month until their divorce in 2002, she claims. "My sense is that he saw [my narcolepsy] as an opportunity," Davis surmises. Sometimes she fought Hager off and he would quit for a while, only to circle back later that same night; at other times, "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." At still other moments, she says, she attempted to avoid Hager's predatory advances in various ways--for example, by sleeping in other rooms in the house, or by struggling to stay awake until Hager was in a deep sleep himself. But, she says, nothing worked. One of Davis's lifelong confidantes remembers when Davis first told her about the abuse. "[Linda] was very angry and shaken," she recalled.

** update **

Jesus' General writes an Amazon review of Mr. Hager's book As Jesus Cared for Women: Restoring Women Then and Now.

Reviewer: Gen. JC Christian, patriot (Tremonton, UT United States) - See all my reviews

This book is a godsend. Before I read it, my wife, Ofjoshua, was always asking me for money to visit doctors and buy medicine. Now, whenever she complains about premenstrual syndrome or some other female problem, I just tell her to get down on her knees and pray, just like the doctor ordered.

My only complaint is that the book fails to adequately address problems relating to willfulness. Indeed, the refusal of a woman to submit to her husband is only mentioned in passing. I know that Dr. Hager can give us more guidance on this particular problem. An article published today in The Nation says he has a lot of experience in dealing with it. According to the article, whenever his ex-wife refused to submit to his patriarchal authority, he'd bend her over and force her to do her marital duties, prison style. The article doesn't say whether he made her pray before, during, or after he applied the rod of correction, nor does it address the question of petroleum jelly. That's why he needs to add a section on submission in the next edition. We need to be sure that we're getting it right.