Thursday, May 12, 2005

Dr. Hager, another Bush administration family values guy

is exposed in The Nation.

After Mayor James West, Rep. Don Sherwood, Neal Horsley and Jeff Gannon the two sided nature of this man should not be a surprise. We just have another Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.


Dr. Jekyll
For Hager, those moral and ethical issues all appear to revolve around sex: In both his medical practice and his advisory role at the FDA, his ardent evangelical piety anchors his staunch opposition to emergency contraception, abortion and premarital sex. Through his six books--which include such titles as Stress and the Woman's Body and As Jesus Cared for Women, self-help tomes that interweave syrupy Christian spirituality with paternalistic advice on women's health and relationships--he has established himself as a leading conservative Christian voice on women's health and sexuality.




Mr. Hyde
According to Davis, Hager's public moralizing on sexual matters clashed with his deplorable treatment of her during their marriage. Davis alleges that between 1995 and their divorce in 2002, Hager repeatedly sodomized her without her consent. Several sources on and off the record confirmed that she had told them it was the sexual and emotional abuse within their marriage that eventually forced her out. "I probably wouldn't have objected so much, or felt it was so abusive if he had just wanted normal [vaginal] sex all the time," she explained to me. "But it was the painful, invasive, totally nonconsensual nature of the [anal] sex that was so horrible."


Amazing.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a really disturbing article. I can't imagine someone like the doctor having so much influence over my daughters' lives.

Jon said...

It is truly amazing the number of warped people who are accepted and raised up in this administration, and by their party.