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After reviewing the various legal arguments used to justify criminalizing incest, Saletan comes to the conclusion that genetics cannot be the fundamental basis, since incestuous sex could be non-reproductive. Similarly, the basic issue cannot be consent, since no one is arguing in this case that the sex was non-consensual.

He gets the liberal response just about right: “At this point, liberals tend to throw up their hands. If both parties are consenting adults and the genetic rationale is bogus, why should the law get involved? Incest may seem icky, but that’s what people said about homosexuality, too. It’s all private conduct.”


1 posted on 12/15/2010 9:45:05 AM PST by wmfights
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since incestuous sex could be non-reproductive

Right, and if it turns out to be reproductive you just dig the baby out and flush it down the toilet.


2 posted on 12/15/2010 9:48:45 AM PST by DManA
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Liberals will soon try to define this as marriage, too.


3 posted on 12/15/2010 9:49:04 AM PST by bolobaby
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Your sins will find you out. Ask God. Go ahead.


4 posted on 12/15/2010 9:49:09 AM PST by RexBeach
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So, Why Is Incest Wrong?

Because you can wind up with brain damaged offspring.


5 posted on 12/15/2010 9:49:44 AM PST by humblegunner (Blogger Overlord)
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Oh brother ....


6 posted on 12/15/2010 9:50:44 AM PST by clamper1797 (Pray for Obama ... Psalms 109:8)
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A few years ago, a book was written by a young woman who confessed to sleeping with her father. I wonder if this is the same young woman.


7 posted on 12/15/2010 9:51:45 AM PST by yellow rubber ducky (One day I realized I am living in Bizarro world.)
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Saletan is an effing idiot. The problem with incest, be it hetero or disordered homo is simple. The parent raises the child and is in a position to teach his children that satisfying Daddy's needs is the prime directive in life from a young age.

Liberal assholes.

8 posted on 12/15/2010 9:52:17 AM PST by jwalsh07
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Comes to that, why have a separate crime for rape? Except for the the fact that a baby COULD be conceived (and so what by this logic) it’s really just assault and battery.


10 posted on 12/15/2010 9:53:53 AM PST by DManA
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Personally, I believe a good number of homosexuals are victims of incest. I wish a study would be done on this.


11 posted on 12/15/2010 9:53:53 AM PST by Beowulf9
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The moral compass spins in a circle like a magnetic compass at the North Pole, when following liberal ethics which deny the human soul, and consult the brain stem and genitals to determine how one should feel.


12 posted on 12/15/2010 9:54:03 AM PST by Retain Mike
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I remember when all the folks who argued that incest, bestiality and poligamy was where the homo marriage thing was going were laughed off as paranoids.


13 posted on 12/15/2010 9:55:56 AM PST by jospehm20
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Rush was talking about this yesterday.

I’m wondering when idiots like this professor will argue that’s its OK to have sex with his students. They are of legal age, right? Consenting adults and all that, right?


14 posted on 12/15/2010 9:55:56 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
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The most appaling thing is that this guy will become a hero and a cause celebre to some.
15 posted on 12/15/2010 9:56:33 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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Obviously....

16 posted on 12/15/2010 9:56:33 AM PST by r9etb
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“If homosexuality is OK, why is incest wrong?”

Homosexuality is OK?


17 posted on 12/15/2010 9:56:47 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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As I wrote in a student paper way back when I was in grad school, the legitimization of incest and even recognition of incestuous marriages is the logical conclusion of arguments advanced in favor of gay marriage.
20 posted on 12/15/2010 9:59:23 AM PST by curiosity
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... quietly asking: “If homosexuality is OK, why is incest wrong?”

Start with a glaringly incorrect assumption, get a glaringly stupid question.

21 posted on 12/15/2010 9:59:31 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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If you give perverts an inch they will take a mile.

It is starting with Homosexuals, Been around for years, mainly in the closet. Today they want homosexuality allowed in the military and in marriage.

Soon it will be consensual incest, Polygamy,then pedophilia, then Beastiality.

It is an old argument with liberals saying that one thing does not necessarily lead to another, but the fact is that it does.

Pornography starts with the viewer watching two people having sex ,then that isn’t exciting enough along come the more exotic films with oral, anal, before long its fisting and BDSM and it gets worse from there.

Just as Marijuana is a gateway drug to Cocaine, Heroin, Meth and other drugs.
Homosexuality is the latest gateway for openly perverted sex.

Turn your backs and allow open perversion of one kind and pretty soon you will be turning your back on other perversion. Already this story has people who see nothing wrong with incest. They speak of a controversy. There is no controversy It is wrong.


24 posted on 12/15/2010 10:00:45 AM PST by Venturer
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Its common place in Islam.


26 posted on 12/15/2010 10:01:55 AM PST by MissyMack66 (ROMNEY SUCKS: don't be fooled like we were in MA.)
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If they’re into incest, just tell them to go to Pakistan.

Excuse me, Pahkeestahn.


31 posted on 12/15/2010 10:06:11 AM PST by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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