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If We Legalize Gay Marriage, What About Incest, Bestiality, Pedophilia, etc.?

reviewed by GenghisTheHun

This argument goes something like this: legalizing gay marriage will lead to a slippery slope that takes us towards things like the legalization of incest, bestiality, pedophilia, etc. Rate 5 if you agree with this, 1 if you don't.

GenghisTheHun
02/21/2008

If We Legalize Gay Marriage, What About Incest, Bestiality, Pedophilia, etc.? 5

Come off it all you one star posters! The legal positition to allow this activity rests on at least two theories.

The first is privacy, and the second is equal protection with due process thrown in. What do we care about what happens in the privacy of your bedroom is the question. If society cannot regulate whether a fourteen year old girl can have an abortion, how can it regulate whether a fourteen year old boy wants to have sex with his neighbor, for instance? What do we care what a 35 year old uncle and an 18 year old niece do in the privacy of their bedrooms? Is it our business if a 18 year old brother and a 20 year old sister have sex in the privacy of their bedroom?

I can go on and on, but if you think rationally, you should see the point. It actually is a slippery slope and the slope has no bottom or the bottom is a long way down to total depravity.

The legal bases for these types of activity are mainly sophistry that cannot stand analysis by reason and experience.

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CanadaSucks commented 1008 days ago.
Although I'm a civil-unions-kind-of-guy, the issue is a legal one of discrimination- my wife has certain legal rights to make decisions about me and my estate- a gay couple (depending on the redneck-ness of a state) has a tougher time. . .one couple has rights in one state whereas in another they have less or none? It's a Constitutional loser no matter what your Sunday-school tendencies tell you. ..

FranksWildYears commented 945 days ago.
You can go on and on, and I'm sure you will, but the issue of the state recognizing the rights of two people to make a spiritually recognized committment to one another and the list of human abuses and travesties that you site above have absolutely nothing to do with one another.

GenghisTheHun commented 650 days ago.
If they want to control their estate, make a will or set up a trust or both.
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