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In other words, you're not going to answer the hypothetical question I posed. My point was that homosexual advocates use the argument that their sexual behavior is legitimate, normal, and nodody's business because it is between two consenting adults. So what about incest? If incest between an adult father and daughter became the sexual flavor of the day--would you also say then that it is legitimate? You'll have to in order to remain consistant.

In other words, you're not going to answer the hypothetical question I posed. My point was that homosexual advocates use the argument that their sexual behavior is legitimate, normal, and nodody's business because it is between two consenting adults. So what about incest? If incest between an adult father and daughter became the sexual flavor of the day--would you also say then that it is legitimate? You'll have to in order to remain consistant.

I'll grant that homosexual sex is "nobody's business [when] it is between two consenting adults", but "normal" has too many definitions to be used here without making it ambigious and "legitimate" strikes me as an opinion-based value-judgement -- I really can't think of how any sexual act, whether between a same-sex couple or an opposite sex couple could be consireded to be overall "legitimate" (or "illegitimate" for that mater)-- so I can't agree with that either.

Given what I do agree with -- that homosexual sex is "nobody's business [when] it is between two consenting adults" -- I would also agree that the same applies to incest.

Should we legitimize incest?

This is, as you pointed out, a hypothetical question. Nonetheless, you need to define your terms.

What is 'incest?' In Massachusetts they just changed the law because previously only intercourse was against the law; now they've added oral sex, etc. And how closely related do people have to be? 2nd cousins? 1st cousins? Adopted niece/uncle? Nephew/aunt? Step brother/sister?

And what is 'legitimized?' Some states merely forbid marriage between cousins, but sex between them is legal. Does that legitimize incestuous relations? Is it necessary for it to be criminal?

And finally, who are 'we?' Do you mean society, government, churches, or TV shows?

Since no one thinks the incest laws need to be loosened, it is moot point, but I hipe these questions show the complexity that has to be dealt with anytime we legislate morality.