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lb_lee for bringing this to my attention. Everyone should feel free to tell me how wrong I am on this, as I am squicked by my own conclusion and would love it if someone changed my mind.
Remember the anti-gay-marriage crowd's dire warnings that legalizing gay marriage would lead to the legitimacy of incest and bestiality, and how the rest of us pooh-poohed them as hateful backward hicks?
Well, maybe the right-wingers had a point
( Conservatives should feel free to point and laugh )
By defining marriage as a compact between consenting adults, it seems we liberals have indeed paved the way for a world in which a father and daughter can wed, or two sisters can walk proudly down the aisle. I don't know if it'll take ten years or a hundred, but there's no logically consistent way to say these couples should not be recognized by law. Disgusted as I am at the idea, I just don't see how I can say "no" to consensual incestuous marriage.
lb_lee for bringing this to my attention. Everyone should feel free to tell me how wrong I am on this, as I am squicked by my own conclusion and would love it if someone changed my mind.Remember the anti-gay-marriage crowd's dire warnings that legalizing gay marriage would lead to the legitimacy of incest and bestiality, and how the rest of us pooh-poohed them as hateful backward hicks?
Well, maybe the right-wingers had a point
( Conservatives should feel free to point and laugh )
By defining marriage as a compact between consenting adults, it seems we liberals have indeed paved the way for a world in which a father and daughter can wed, or two sisters can walk proudly down the aisle. I don't know if it'll take ten years or a hundred, but there's no logically consistent way to say these couples should not be recognized by law. Disgusted as I am at the idea, I just don't see how I can say "no" to consensual incestuous marriage.
