On his “Focal Point” radio program today, Bryan Fischer offered his insights into the Ray Rice domestic abuse scandal by saying that Rice’s then-fiancée, now-wife Janay Palmer Rice was essentially responsible for her own abuse, which was the result of engaging in unbiblical cohabitation.

As Fischer explained, the Bible strictly prohibits premarital cohabitation, so Ray Rice and Janay Palmer were guilty of engaging in illegitimate sexual immorality and living in sin. This biblical position is reinforced by social science research, he said, that shows that such relationships are more dangerous for women than marriage or living alone.

Fischer said that since Palmer had apparently “not been educated, did not understand biblical standards, she put herself in a place where, if her eyes were open and she was thinking clearly and she had been educated as she should have been in our school system, by her parents, at church, she would have known that the most dangerous place for me to be as a woman is living with a guy I’m not married to.”

“If you want to have reasons not to do it,” Fischer concluded, “getting knocked out in a casino elevator, that’s the only reason that you need … When biblical standards of morality are ignored, people get hurt”: