'Legalize Incest' Suggestion Shocks Lawmakers

Crosswalk ^ | May 21st, 2004 | Patrick Goodenough

[jwalsh07]

So, can we marry our brothers and our sisters at the same time.........as long as we are all consenting adults?

Certainly, the inimitable Justice Kennedy's "transcendent liberty" opinion is blanket coverage for whatever one may dream up.

[sweetliberty]

[Peach]

The radical leftist agenda also include lowering the age of sexual consent. It's started and the agenda they led us to believe "it's all for the children" was really all for them. Sick perverts.

[bannie]

Rome slides away before our very, objecting eyes.

[SupplySider]

I'm waiting for the gay community to support these oppressed "brothers and sisters". I guess the fact that that support would harm their personal agenda means they will acquiesce to the persecution of these people.

Gay activists and other leftists, stay out of the bedrooms of consenting adults!

[curmudgeonII]

That rarely brings out anything but bad.

You may, however, think of a couple of items which counter your argument:
1. Abraham and Sarah [founders of the Jewish race] were half brother and sister.
2. There were, apparently, a large number of brother-sister and father-daughter incestuous activities among the Egyptian pharoahs with little discernable adverse reaction.

Please don't take these points as an argument in favor of incest. I find the whole idea repulsive. But the potential genetic results of incest are usually extremely exagerated to a point of being, scientifically, ridiculous. [Just read some of the earlier replies in this post.]

[Tall_Texan]

Now that gay marriage is legal in the U.S., who are we to tell anybody else that what they do in private is immoral?

[Graymatter]

>>"But it has also been found that if you continue to practice incest systematically, the recessive genes will automatically be weeded out, and only the dominant ones will come up."

Recessive like, say, 5 fingers per hand? Are you...sure?

[Redcloak]

BWAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAAA!!!

My diabolical plan is moving forward; right on schedule. First, it was gay marriage. Now it's incest. Next will be polygamy. After that, "group relationships" and "interspecies love". Finally, one day, I'll be able to proudly announce: "That's not an illegal assault weapon. That's my 23rd wife!"

[Ciexyz]

If it feels good, do it. (/sarcasm)

[Old Professer]

And the younger, the better...

[Old Professer]

Actually, biology doesn't support your argument; worse yet, the argument is flawed because it proceeds from the notion that evolution is a progressive path to an idealized perfection.

[jwalsh07]

There were, apparently, a large number of brother-sister and father-daughter incestuous activities among the Egyptian pharoahs with little discernable adverse reaction.

Easy for you to say, you weren't the 8 year old daughter with the Egyptian pervert hounding you every night.

[cavtrooper21]

There is a factor that you have overlooked when you speak of the Pharaohs.
Many were found to have multiple physical disorders and defects that have direct connections to inbreeding and incest, and who's to say that much of their "god-like" behavior was brought about by genetically linked mental instability.
King Tut was found to have skeletal defects related to inbreeding, and his father, who's name escapes me, was also said to have been "misshapen".
These are extreme, involving multi-generational crossing and recrossing of the same narrow bloodlines.
I feel the same way you do about incest.. It's wrong, and I see no reason to let it start just because some "progressive" thinks it's OK.

[Scenic Sounds]

Oh, PERFECT. That didn't take long, did it?

Hmmmmmmm. I wonder when it was that they first started letting women sit with the men in church. ;-)

[cavtrooper21]

Excuse me.
Unless I've been sadly mistaken (and misled) for the last few years...
Breeding sister to brother, whether its people or cattle or little fuzzy gerbils, is not a good idea over many generations.
My point was that incest (when practiced over multiple generations) can lead to some major problems in isolated populations.
The cheeta is a very good example of this in nature. Very narrow gene lines and slowly declining population.

[curmudgeonII]

King Tut was found to have skeletal defects related to inbreeding, and his father, who's name escapes me, was also said to have been "misshapen".

King Tut's daddy was [please excuse my spelling on this] Akhenaten - he's the guy that pushed monotheism in Egypt. He was hated by the priestly caste, and most references to him have been destroyed. There are some scholars who believe that the grossly distorted statues of him may have been due to a then-current artisitic fashion [Ancient Egyptian cubism?] rather than a gentic flaw[s].

[cavtrooper21]

I've heard both arguments, but there are texts that survive from his reign that suggest he had "problems".. Well, it doesn't really matter that much, he's been gone for a while. (understatement)
..and at least you remembered his name, spelling doesn't matter that much, as long as we both know who we're talking about.

[randog]

Oh NO, after Massachusettes we have anything goes when it comes to sexual relationships, I have heard Man with animals, sodomizing horses, marrying more than 1 person and now marry your family members, I am sure pedophiles will want in on the action next....

True, although in a roundabout way. Watch for movements to lower the age of consent. Pedophilia legalization will be a frog-boiling procedure--the heat will be turned up slowly by incrementally lowering the age of consent. You'll see arguments to lower the age to sixteen because "they do it anyway" and "if they're old enough to be given the responsibility to drive then they're old enough for sex". After that you'll see a move to lower the age to the beginning of puberty because "it's natural". They'll counter religious conservatives by arguing that "if God didn't want us to have sex at an early age then he wouldn't have equipped us so". Don't underestimate the ability of the human mind to rationalize deviant behavior.

[lainde]

Here we go. Another centimeter down the slide of moral and cultural collapse...