My friend in Germany said that have or are about to receive parliamentary approval. It will probably go through Parliament because the most right wing group that has large numbers is Christian Democratic Union, they are ones that are pushing for this bill to pass.

I will add that since then Germany has tightened the laws, they obviously saw that there was a huge loophole.

I looked it up and most of the information in the buzzfeed article is about the law before 1997, the law before it was changed back in 1997 stated that “ “Whoever compels a woman to have extramarital intercourse with him, or with a third person, by force or the threat of present danger to life or limb, shall be…

Unfortunately it was not just the GOP, more than 11 Democrats supported this when the bill was put to the House. They need to be voted out and replaced.

He has already mentioned human rights issues and i hope he pushes it. However he has to tread carefully because of Cuba’s unhappiness about Guantanamo bay and they could easily point back about violation of human rights at G bay. Another issue is that many feel that sovereignty in Cuba is not being respected.

He could be but people have looked up his grandchildren and they are racist trash. Death threats are not okay but his grandchildren seem vile.