Howard Dean’s Incest Vote

National Review ^ | 7/21/04 | NRO Staff

[MegaSilver]

Please, just send all the gays to co-habitate on an island somewhere and be done with them!

Yesterday, my brother talked about sending all homosexuals to a "penal camp." I warned him that that might not be such a hot idea, as someone could easily make a really bad pun on that. :)

Actually, though, there's a story in Greek mythology/legend/history (?) about a bunch of women who got sick of men and so they went to the island of Lesbos to make their own second-wave feminist-type paradise. (That's where we get the word, "lesbian.") Unable to breed, the colony died out.

[MegaSilver]

I am in my fourth decade of existence, and I say "they're a super-neat couple" just looking at Jessica Simpson alone. ; )

That's for sure. :)

[AuH2ORepublican]

I read recently about a state (I don't remember which) that actually has an exception to its incest laws if the couple is unable to reproduce (they are presumed to be unable to reproduce if the woman is over a certain age, and may provide evidence of sterility if the woman is below that age). Apparently the state legislature, much like Howard Dean, believed that incest laws exist only to avoid diseases that may be suffered by the product of incestuous relationships, and not because for thousands of years Western civilization has considered such relationships to be immoral. In any event, a gay couple sued, saying that if a brother and sister can marry if they prove they can't procreate, it was discriminatory to deny a marriage license to two members of the same sex, who obviously can't procreate. The courts threw out the suit, but I wouldn't be surprised if in the next few years incestuous relationships are legitimized and raised to the level of constitutional rights due to the gay-marriage precedents.

We absolutely need a federal marriage amendment to stop judges from destroying the institution of marriage.