Oh dear, oh dear....

Ken Clarke's in trouble for suggesting (or did he?) that some rapes are more or less serious than others.  We seem to keep coming back to the question of rape, don't we?  Put "rape" in the search box above to see how often it crops up.  I think Ken Clarke's comments were deliberately "misunderstood" by those with a political or other axe to grind.  Clearly the law does regard rape on a sliding scale of seriousness, otherwise all those convicted of the offence would receive an identical sentence whereas a cursory examination of rape cases shows this isn't so.  Once again we have somebody being castigated for telling an obvious truth.