Homosexuality and Incest

(I suspect that this post’s title will attract a bit of attention.)

A few days ago, I posted a link to the story of a young woman — an adult, though not by much (chronologically speaking) — who would like to marry her father, to whom she recently, happily, lost her virginity.

I implicitly suggested that, in the current rush to redefine marriage (which I’m plainly on record as opposing), such relationships might constitute the new frontier to which we’re making seemingly inexorable “progress.”

Some were quite displeased with me.  Just as the late Senator Hubert Humphrey promised back in the 1960s that the civil rights legislation then being considered would never, could never, lead to racial preferences and quotas, I was assured that absolutely nobody is calling for the legalization of incest.  However, others demanded to know what on earth I thought was wrong with loving sexual relationships between adult siblings and between parents and consenting-adult children.  I am, of course, hateful and a bigot.  (QED.)

Anyway, I decided to look around a bit, and, within less than thirty seconds, I came up with this article by Professor Sherry Colb, of the law school at Cornell University, who is an advocate of same-sex “marriage”:

“Is it arbitrary to distinguish incest from homosexuality?”

Here are a couple of sentences from the last portion of the article:

I do not wish to be read in this column to be suggesting that incestuous marriage bans are necessarily legitimate. . . .  For this reason, I would leave open the possibility that one day, the U.S. Supreme Court will see fit to hold that as a matter of fundamental liberty, any competent adult should be free to marry any other competent adult, if the two wish to marry.

If the juggernaut for the redefinition of marriage continues with its current momentum, I think it virtually inevitable that consensual incest will eventually — and in the not too distant future — become a burning issue in the media and before the courts.  And I can’t see much of a principled reason, if the logic behind advocacy of same-sex “marriage” has been accepted, to refuse this new step forward in human “liberation.”

Americans, American voters, need to go into this brave new world, if they choose to do so, with their eyes wide open.