If we see a child being molested, do we care if the child wants to press charges? No we do not
A child isn't an adult. I'm OK with you wanting to designate women as being children before the law but at least be honest about what you're arguing for. Women, of any age, cannot be allowed to drink because the law considers them to be children. Women can't have credit cards because the law considers them to be children.
A child needs extraordinary protection from the law in cases where the child's parents are failing in their duty to the child. A woman is an adult, she can leave an abusive situation or an abusive relationship.
The NFL can not tolerate this kind of behavior.
What goes on in the private lives of individuals is not the business of the employer. If Rice was a homosexual and taking it up the ass, the NFL would have no business judging him worthy or unworthy of being on the team.
But if you want to open the door to allow employers to fire people for personal behaviors of which they disapprove, I don't have an objection so long as we apply this rule uniformly.
I didn't say women should be treated like children.
You are ignoring the abused women syndrome. They were talking about this on the radio today. Ever see a woman getting her ass kicked by her man, another man steps in to defend her and she turns on him and starts defending her abusive boyfriend? Dogs do it too. A master can abuse his dog all his life and if another man started beating up his master, he would defend his master.
Abused women are not thinking right. They have been brainwashed to think they deserve the beatings they get. I don't think they are children but they sure aren't intelligent women who know to get out of that abusive relationship.
And homosexuals aren't thinking right. Get it? It's not government's business to second guess adults on whether they're "thinking right." If you think that this woman is mentally ill, then take her before a judge and commit her to a mental hospital, otherwise keep government out of the business of people's marriages. Your religious views shouldn't be shoved onto other people.
You are being stupid. If your community knows a wife is being beat up by her husband, you're saying they should say nothing and just turn a blind eye? I say call the cops and have the man arrested.