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So I have this old friend from the neighborhood.  We're not close but we hang out mostly when other old friends are around, and I stop by once every few months at most to catch up.  He's single, lives in a crappy neighborhood.  He's overweight and keeps company with - at risk of sounding elitist - a less educated crowd?  So when we do hang out it's fun, but gets old after an hour or two.  Overall a nice guy, but I have little in common with him other than history of growing up together.  

So, one day I'm hanging out with some mutual friends and a girl I know approaches me about the friend.  She said she spoke to a girl who went to one of his parties, who claimed one night they got drunk, got into bed, and he basically raped her.  My wife hears this story and immediately accepts it as true.  I say something like "Well, I don't know what happened so I'm reserving judgment."  I'm not close enough to the guy to walk up and say "So, how're things?  I hear you raped a girl once.  Is it true?"

Anyway, my wife and I get married.  Friend was invited to the wedding but couldn't make it.  Later, at another friend's wedding, my wife confesses "I was glad he couldn't come to the wedding and was considering telling you not to invite him."  This really upset me and I kinda blew up at her for making judgments on a friend based on a 2nd- or 3rd- hand story.  We basically agreed to disagree.

Anyway, now whenever I mention the possibility of visiting that friend when he has a party my wife immediately responds with "HELL no" or whatever.  It's not a huge loss to not really hang out with this friend anymore - I think what bothers me more is my wife's immediate, total belief in a story when we don't know everything.  I'm a person who likes to maintain relationships I've had with people even if they're not super fun or awesome.  So, any thoughts?
<bot>: We heard 3rd-hand story of a friend committing rape.  Wife immediately believed it and wants to shun friend.