Posted on 02/20/2007 7:57:39 PM PST by jmc1969
A German brother and sister who live as a couple and have four children are going to Germany's highest court to try to legalise their relationship.
The pair are currently drawing up an appeal to take before Germany's constitutional court.
They argue they are being denied the right to sexual freedom.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
"Genetically defective" is a charged term that reeks of eugenics. Furthermore, I maintain that it is not within the power of the state to regulate sex between two consenting individuals.
Ah-ha! Thanks for clearing that up for us. ;o)
The EU is so open minded that their brains have fallen out
No, the next step is several males and females, then sheep and goats and dogs, THEN brothers and sisters.
"According to Spiegel online, while Patrick was in prison Susan had a fifth child with another man."
Good Lord
Mr. Clinton you were banned in 98 and you really have to stop
getting posting names and posting here.
So which half are you, Siegmund or Sieglinde?
When animal breeders cross brother and sister, or parent and offspring for that matter, they expect a certain number of "culls". Those with very bad genetic characteristics which were suppressed in the parents but which both carried. If the offspring got one of those "bad" genes from each parent, then they would express the characteristic. A common such characteristic for humans is hemophilia, but there are other much worse ones.
Animal breeders kill, and in some cases eat, the culls. Not something one can do with human beings.... unless one believes in post birth abortion I suppose.
OMG, I am glad Germany is in the enlightened sphere of Europe and not in the South. The jokes and jabs would be relentless.
Holy Mackerel! Gosh I wish I had known the degenerate one was posting before you banned that thing ... I wanted so badly to spit in his eye and insult the degenerate slug.
Apparently, that was just the warm-up.
Maybe they plan to start their own circus/freakshow and reduce operating costs by keeping it a family business.
So... was West Virginia settled by mostly German Immigrants??
Most European "royal" families kept to the 4 degrees of consanguity rule ~ you're thinking of the nobles. There anything went.
All incest does is increase the incidence of autosomal recessives occuring in the offspring. These are not "new genes", but "old genes" who are thereby given an opportunity to be expressed.
Almost everybody has some autosomal recessives.
They're also being denied the right to a single strand of DNA for the kids.
Given the success of the Gay Mafia, you just knew it was only a matter of time.
EW!!!!!!!!!!!
"The pair did not grow up together. Patrick, the brother, had been adopted by a couple from Potsdam while his sister, Susan, grew up with their mother.
But when he reached adulthood he wanted to track down his biological parents. He found his mother, and he met Susan.
About six months later, the mother died, and Patrick moved in with Susan. In 2001, their son, Erik, was born. He was subsequently taken into foster care.
Three more children were born between 2003 and 2005. In November of that year, the pair were tried for incest.
Patrick was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison. His sister, then 21, was put into the care of youth services. "
Well, they are both adults and while they may be technically breaking the law, but considering that they have four children, it hurts the children to have their parents locked up for a victimless crime. One would think the court would have some real criminals to prosecute.
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