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German Ethics Council declares incest a “fundamental right”

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From here:

Laws banning incest between brothers and sisters in Germany could be scrapped after a government ethics committee said they were an unacceptable intrusion into the right to sexual self-determination.

“Criminal law is not the appropriate means to preserve a social taboo,” the German Ethics Council said in a statement. “The fundamental right of adult siblings to sexual self-determination is to be weighed more heavily than the abstract idea of protection of the family.”

The problem for the Anglican Church will be this: if the church redefines marriage to include same sex couples, what possible reason could it have to exclude opposite sex siblings in monogamous, committed, faithful relationships?

Hollywood, having done gay, moves on to incest

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Since Hollywood sets the moral climate for what’s left of western culture, it won’t be that long before incest between consenting adults is legal, those who disapprove will be labelled incestophobic bigots, and batty church denominations will be falling over themselves in the rush to be the first to offer a generous pastoral response to committed monogamous brother-sister relationships.

And why not? After all, as the director piously intones: ‘You know what? This whole movie is about judgment, and lack of it, and doing what you want.’

The last thing we want to do is judge anyone or stop them doing what they want.

From here:

The Hollywood film director behind beloved romantic drama, The Notebook, has proved himself a true champion of love by admitting he doesn’t think there is anything wrong with incest.

In an interview about his new movie, Yellow – which debuted at the Toronto Film Festival this weekend – Nick Cassavetes defended his protagonist’s affair with her brother.

The Alpha Dog director reasoned that since he had no personal experience in the matter, he didn’t believe he was in a position to condemn incest and went on to compare it to gay marriage.

 

Switzerland to vote on incest legality

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From here:

Switzerland is considering a repeal its incest laws to make sexual relations between family members legal.

It claims the law is ‘obsolete’ and that the courts have dealt with just three cases since 1984.

The upper house of the Swiss parliament has drafted a law de-criminalising sex between adult consenting family members which must now be considered by the government….

Politicians of both the left and right are outraged at the suggested change. But Green party MP and lawyer Daniel Vischer said he saw nothing wrong with two consenting adults having sex, even if they were related.

The Green MP’s seeing nothing wrong with incest is an apt illustration of what happens when you toss out the foundation upon which right and wrong are based: in this case, Judeo-Christian ethics.

When that is gone, subjectivity replaces it and all it takes to turn a wrong into a right is for someone to see it that way. One wonders what churches will do with this if it passes; will they bless same-sex partnerships between siblings?