So, Why Is Incest Wrong?

AlbertMohler.com ^ | December 15, 2010 | Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr.

[wmfights]

After reviewing the various legal arguments used to justify criminalizing incest, Saletan comes to the conclusion that genetics cannot be the fundamental basis, since incestuous sex could be non-reproductive. Similarly, the basic issue cannot be consent, since no one is arguing in this case that the sex was non-consensual.

He gets the liberal response just about right: “At this point, liberals tend to throw up their hands. If both parties are consenting adults and the genetic rationale is bogus, why should the law get involved? Incest may seem icky, but that’s what people said about homosexuality, too. It’s all private conduct.”

[DManA]

since incestuous sex could be non-reproductive

Right, and if it turns out to be reproductive you just dig the baby out and flush it down the toilet.

[bolobaby]

Liberals will soon try to define this as marriage, too.

[RexBeach]

Your sins will find you out. Ask God. Go ahead.

[humblegunner]

So, Why Is Incest Wrong?

Because you can wind up with brain damaged offspring.

[clamper1797]

Oh brother ....

[yellow rubber ducky]

A few years ago, a book was written by a young woman who confessed to sleeping with her father. I wonder if this is the same young woman.

[jwalsh07]

Saletan is an effing idiot. The problem with incest, be it hetero or disordered homo is simple. The parent raises the child and is in a position to teach his children that satisfying Daddy's needs is the prime directive in life from a young age.

Liberal assholes.

[Responsibility2nd]

Oh brother ....

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.... said the sister.

[DManA]

Comes to that, why have a separate crime for rape? Except for the the fact that a baby COULD be conceived (and so what by this logic) it’s really just assault and battery.

[Beowulf9]

Personally, I believe a good number of homosexuals are victims of incest. I wish a study would be done on this.

[Retain Mike]

The moral compass spins in a circle like a magnetic compass at the North Pole, when following liberal ethics which deny the human soul, and consult the brain stem and genitals to determine how one should feel.

[jospehm20]

I remember when all the folks who argued that incest, bestiality and poligamy was where the homo marriage thing was going were laughed off as paranoids.

[Responsibility2nd]

Rush was talking about this yesterday.

I’m wondering when idiots like this professor will argue that’s its OK to have sex with his students. They are of legal age, right? Consenting adults and all that, right?

[Joe 6-pack]

The most appaling thing is that this guy will become a hero and a cause celebre to some.

[r9etb]

Obviously....

[Altura Ct.]

“If homosexuality is OK, why is incest wrong?”

Homosexuality is OK?

[Vendome]

Uh Oh...

[Michael.SF.]

Right, and if it turns out to be reproductive you just...

call them European Royalty

[curiosity]

As I wrote in a student paper way back when I was in grad school, the legitimization of incest and even recognition of incestuous marriages is the logical conclusion of arguments advanced in favor of gay marriage.