Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 18:30:14 +0100 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org>, Larry Sica <lomion@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Senator Santorum Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20030506182557.07db3820@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030506101600.D4420@znfgre.qbhto.arg> References: <ADAEB726-7FD9-11D7-8EA4-000393A335A2@mac.com> <ADAEB726-7FD9-11D7-8EA4-000393A335A2@mac.com>
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At 10:23 06/05/2003 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >"And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual 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." > >The annoying thing about what he said from the standpoint of the gay >rights folks is that he's right. It really is a slippery legal slope. Not quite. Bigamy and polygamy aren't questions of sex; they're questions of marriage. As for incest and adultery... personally I don't see where the problem lies with incest, providing that no (genetically impaired) children are born of it, and I can't think of any civilized state where adultery is illegal. Colin Percival
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