Posted on 05/02/2007 10:27:48 AM PDT by Uncledave
WHEN THE BBC invited me onto one of its talk shows recently to talk about the day's hot topic -- legalizing adult incest -- I thought of Rick Santorum.
Back in 2003, as the Supreme Court was preparing to rule in Lawrence v. Texas, a case challenging the constitutionality of laws criminalizing homosexual sodomy, then-Senator Santorum caught holy hell for warning out that if the law were struck down, there would be no avoiding the slippery slope.
"If the Supreme Court says you have the right to consensual sex within your home," he told a reporter, "then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything."
It was a common-sensical observation, though you wouldn't have known it from the nail-spitting it triggered in some quarters. When the justices, voting 6-3, did in fact declare it unconstitutional for any state to punish consensual gay sex, the dissenters echoed Santorum's point. "State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity are . . . called into question by today's decision," Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the minority. Now, Time magazine acknowledges: "It turns out the critics were right."
Time's attention, like the BBC's, has been caught by the legal battles underway to decriminalize incest between consenting adults. An article last month by Time reporter Michael Lindenberger titled "Should Incest Be Legal?" highlights the case of Paul Lowe, an Ohio man convicted of incest for having sex with his 22-year-old stepdaughter.
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Marsha Brady? What would Cindy think?
West Virginia is in ecstasy!........
Marsha!.....Marsha!.....Marsha!.......always Marsha!........
Having said that, it should come as no surprise that the advocates of this change would choose a nonsense complaint to show why the change should be made. This has been the exact tactic towards the entire arena of laws that touch on sexual activity, the acme of which is that we allow millions of abortions for the sake of the few pregnancies that come from rape or incest.
This is not incest. Come back when there is a real story. This is just for theatrics. An adult stepdaughter...no blood is not incest. I definitely don’t want people to pass laws that advocate incest but at least get a case that we can legitimately complain about.
How soon before America goes back to calling female traits, observations, and attitudes as "people's," not "women's," "girl's," or "female's," as not to offend homosexuals, as Oprah led us in the 90's?
I used to work with a woman who married her step-brother. They were raised together since they were about 10-years-old. Totally gave me the heebie-jeebies.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
“We need to bring shame back to its rightful place in society.”
It ain’t gonna happen anywhere this side of the Second Coming.
Yes, and Woody Allen ended up marrying his. But think of the bizarre permutations of the definition of “family.” (Like we don’t have enough of those already.)
“Greg and Marsha Brady could have had sex and it would not have been incest. I think incest pertains to blood kin.”
You are correct. Incest pertains to sexual relationshops involving blood kin, and blood kin only - be the “relationship” parent/child or sibling/sibling or, in most (if not all) states, cousin/cousin.
Abraham married his half-sister, Isaac and Jacob their cousins, and they all turned out okay........
cousin/cousin?......1st,2nd,3rd?......
I’ve heard Rudy can answer that.
We can only hope...
What if the stepdaughter was 12 yrs. old when it started? What if this guy had been at the girl for years before she decided that was what she wanted at the time of this guy’s arrest? There must be some morality in the laws if society wants to protect the innocents.
Rick Santorum was definitely right about this slippery slope.
I knew a woman like that, married her older stepbrother, they'd been raised together from at least that age, maybe younger.
Yeah, it was....creepy.
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