GOP Congressional Candidate Richard 'Dick' Black: Spousal Rape Shouldn't Be a Crime

Spousal Rape Shouldn't Be A Crime, Says GOP Congressional Candidate Richard 'Dick' Black
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Del. Richard H. Black, R-Loudoun, holds plastic models of 12-week and 20-week old fetuses during debate on his bill that would require anesthesia to be administered during abortions on the floor fo the House of Delegates at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

After taking a drubbing in last year's state elections, Virginia Republicans are debating whether their party has come to be defined by its extremists. But in a congressional district in Northern Virginia, one of the state's main instigators of culture warfare, state Sen. Richard H. "Dick" Black, is running in the Republican primary to replace longtime GOP moderate Rep. Frank Wolf.

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