Charge: Father, Daughter Married (Is it Okay With Sandra Day O'Connor?)

Mobile Register ^ | 07/25/03 | KAREN TOLKKINEN

[Libertina]

Good going, Sandy. /s

[DannyTN]

"Incestuous marriages are forbidden in all states, in part due to fears about genetic mutation and child abuse."

My guess is that the Supremes would hide behind the fact that all 50 states have banned it and claim that there is a "substantial state interest" in banning such marriages.

For the life of me, I can't see where the states didn't have a "substantial state interest" in banning homosexual activity. Especially in light of the known spread of disease and the high incidence of homosexual pedophilia and other perversions.

"Substantial State Interest" basically allows the court to draw the line anywhere they want it instead of allowing the legislature to determine what is in their own state's interests.

[Xenalyte]

A real blood-blood incest case would be better.

Story says:

According to Mobile County court records, Alice was the third child of Carrol and Shirley Faye Ferdinandsen, and her mother filed for divorce when Alice was only 4 months old.

[Scenic Sounds]

LMAO.

Yes, the warnings have been all too obvious. Where is this all going to end? At what point do we say, "Enough is enuff"?

Exactly where do we draw the line and say, "This far, but no further!!?" ;-)

[nickcarraway]

The Kiss: A Memoir

From the Publisher

In this extraordinary memoir, one of the best young writers in America today transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that began when Kathryn Harrison, twenty years old, was reunited with the father whose absence had haunted her youth. Exquisitely and hypnotically written, like a bold and terrifying dream, The Kiss is breathtaking in its honesty and in the power and beauty of its creation. A story both of taboo and of family complicity in breaking taboo, The Kiss is also about love - about the most primal of love triangles, the one that ensnares a child between mother and father.

[Blzbba]

(applause)

That's the funniest thing I've seen in awhile!

[KantianBurke]

A picture of the happy family...

[MarkL]

Since they are just legally father/daughter then this doesn't seem to meet those objections. Its still disgusting though given the emotional manipulation that most likely took place.

Almost identical to the Woody Allen case... Not biologically related, but married to the child he helped raise.

Mark

[twigs]

Mutations can occur in anyone. They do not necessarily occur in close familial offspring. Genealogy is my hobby and I've been amazed that the bias I grew up concerned marriage between cousins is just not necessarily true. My parents are not related, but three out of four of my father's grandparents were cousins. I am descended through four of the children of the primary progenitor who I research. This family is healthier and longer lived than my mother's family which was not inter-married.

[philosofy123]

Incestuous marriage has been all but practically eradicated in our contemporary culture. If a freak situation causes father and daughter, or brother and sister who have not lived together for many years, and do not even recognize each others as blood related, it should be up to these individuals to keep the marriage if they chose to; and not the business of the government to call it a crime.

[MarkL]

Since they are just legally father/daughter then this doesn't seem to meet those objections. Its still disgusting though given the emotional manipulation that most likely took place.

And this is about the same on the weirdness scale as the Bill Wyman (of Rolling Stones fame) situation...

Bill Wyman's son was dating a much older woman. And Bill was dating that woman's daughter! I don't know if they ever married. And I really don't want to know.

Mark

[FeliciaCat]

yes, thats the one. I cant even begin to imagine how horrible that woman's life was.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Should marijuana be legalized?

[MarkL]

I'd love to hear how the Supremes can uphold this (anti-incest)law in light of the reasoning in Lawrence v. Texas.

Here's my guess at what the reasoning would be... "Homosexual sex is a Constitutionally protected human right, but incest isn't... Because it's "icky!" And because I say so, `cause I'm a judge!

Mark

[VOA]

This is sad, but it is the strange fruit of the Lawrence v. Texas ruling.

Senator Rick Santorum made sure that it was NOT the unexpected fruit of the ruling.

And he was left twisting in the wind, even by most Republicans just for being right.

[Servant of the Nine]

Arrested before they had a chance to be on Jerry Springer?
Isn't that unconstitutional infringement on the right to be publicly imbecilic?

So9

[John Doe]

Saaaad....but true.

[JennysCool]

Thank Homer and Jethro!