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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