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Aug 10, 2005 22:13

So I was listening to NPR today and on News and Notes, Eric Gordon spoke with Rick Santorum a little bit about homosexuality and marriage. The tired, old argument came up of a slippery slope that starts when you allow (as a government) two people of the same sex to marry: if you allow that, what's to stop people from polygamy (or polyandry), or ( Read more... )

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clusterfucked17 August 12 2005, 16:44:59 UTC

as far as polygamy goes i totally agree that the government probably has no right to step in due to the fact that in that situation you cannot necessarily argue consent. or at the very least it is extremely difficult to prove that there is a lack of consent among any of the parties involved. i do, however, agree that you could make the argument (which i wont because i dont have the time to) that it has potential to further the objectification of women. overall, i dont necessarily think polygamy is necessarily a good thing, but then again i wouldnt look down on someone who was involved in marriage with multiple people. it isnt my place to ( ... )

_newt_ August 15 2005, 15:43:59 UTC

Ha, well, I hope (and assume) you realize that my views on homosexuality and beastiality differ from one another.

As to incest, couplings of 1st cousins, I've read, only increase the rate of mutation by 1.5% or so. It's only really immediate family that one would need to worry about detriment to the child born of such relations. However, this discussion seems moot as the discrepancies between the circumstances and consequences of incestuous relations and homosexual relations per se are too numerous to extrapolate the bases of legislation from the latter to the former.

clusterfucked17 August 16 2005, 11:30:50 UTC

what? you mean you don't dig on the animal lovin???? hehe

sammyv August 16 2005, 19:01:01 UTC

I read an interesting essay in C-J the other day, I forget who it was by... but it argued that the slippery slope is a myth. The author was talking about trading liberty for security (blah blah insert famous quote about having neither here), and he said: look at our history. Every time we've started down the so-called slippery slope, after the crisis is over things actually get better, rather than worse. I don't entirely agree with everything the guy said, but it was a really interesting argument.