[Hodar]

Todays she's my sister;
Ta'morrow she'll be my wife!
Gosh, I've known her;
most all of my life.
She's thirteen;
and ah'm thirty-three.
If she's good enough fer 'pa;
then she's good enuff fer me!

[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.

[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

[lowbridge]

I recall reading an Ann Landers or Dear Abby column (one of those harpies, can't recall exactly which one) in which a woman wrote in about a marriage. It seems that she was at a wedding for a 30-40 old man, to his 5 year old daughter. The little girl had no concept of marriage, except that two people who love each other, get married. So, she loved her Father, and so she wanted to marry him. Her parents, instead of informing her about what marriage really was, had a marriage ceremony in which they invited their friends and such, and all the invited guests oohed and ahhed. The woman was really disgusted, told the parents so, and the parents of the little girl saw no harm in what they were doing. (Abby/Ann agreed with this woman. That this was disgusting, and it violated the concept of marriage.

[Hatteras]

eh, it's all relative...

[TheDon]

Referring to a U.S. Supreme Court case that will decide the "constitutionality" of Texas' sodomy law, Santorum, an orthodox Catholic, remarked thusly:

"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything."

Within minutes, a mouthpiece from the disingenuously named Human Rights Campaign, a lobby group for sodomy, was on the blower with the newspapers: "It is stunning, stunning in its insensitivity," David Smith told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Putting homosexuality on the same moral plane as incest is repulsive."

[Chancellor Palpatine]

"I told her she was stupid for marrying her own daddy," Shirley Crayne said.

Thats a West Virginia line if I ever heard one.

[tracer]

Wait just a minute? Who gave away the bride? Who paid for the wedding. Whom did the groom ask for the bride's hand in marriage?

[longtermmemmory]

Are they consenting adults?

Then sex with each other is legal.

The issue is whether society can issue laws which prohibit marriage between those who consent to adult incest.

This is being used to attempt to start the slippery slope.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.....

[Eastbound]

Massa choosets is about to re-define what marriage is. Shouldn't take much pursuasion to convince the supreme court there to include 'unions' like this -- and perhaps even cross-specie unions, if it's all about affording constitutional benefits to any object used for sexual pleasure.

'Do you take this dildo to be your lawfully wedded . . . . '

Yeah, that has a ring to it

< /insanity >

[cake_crumb]

According to proponents of that lovely SCOTUS decision on privacy, it's perfectly fine as long as the incest occurs in the privacy of their own home.

Before the flames start, those arguments were right here on FR.

Welcome to the new world folks. Guess which two parties you can thank (hint: none of them are Republican)

[Jeff Gordon]

What's the big deal. I seem to remember that one of the good guys in the Old Testament was having sex with his daughters and was doing it with God's approval.

[Spok]

Just two more consenting adults doin' what comes naturally. I think the freakin' ACLU needs to get right on this-it could be bigger than second hand smoke!!

[Way2Serious]

"David Ferdinandsen, who said he is Carrol's son and Alice's older brother. He's tried to discourage his father from the relationship, he said, but his father won't listen."

So his sister is now his step-mother and his father is now his brother-in-law, which would make any offspring his siblings/nieces/nephews. This is a privacy issue. The government has no business inside this couple's bedroom. Just ask Sandra O'Connor and David Sueter.

[Graybeard58]

Kentucky Love Poe

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Susie Lee done fell in love;
She planned to marry Joe.

She was so happy 'bout it all
She told her Pappy so.

Pappy told her, "Susie gal,
You'll have to find another.

I'd just as soon yo' Ma don't know,
But Joe is yo' half brother"

So Susie put aside her Joe
And planned to marry Will.

But after telling Pappy this,
He said, "There's trouble still...

You can't marry Will, my gal.,
And please don't tell your Mother,

But Will and Joe and several mo'
I know is yo' half brother"

But Mama knew and said, "My child,
Just do what makes yo' happy.

Marry Will or marry Joe.
You ain't no kin to Pappy.

[danmar]

"I told her she was stupid for marrying her own daddy," Shirley Crayne said. "I told him he was crazy and stupid. I told her I didn't ever want to hear from her again."

What can I say...long live the "White Trash" hicks!... they never fail to live up to the nick! Hurrah!