Want to marry your partner? How about your cousin?

**Goofball** · 10-12-2011, 01:32

You orgahs may have seen this already, but I haven't been around for a while so I wouldn't know. The irony of this little tidbit tickles me pink, as one of the main arguments the "gays shouldn't marry" crowd has been using is that it's the slippery slope to incest, bestiality, and all other little bits of nastyness. They'd prolly blame global warming on gay marriage, except they don't believe in global warming.

**Montmorency** · 10-12-2011, 01:36

Most of the states that alloq gay marriage also allow cousin-marriage.

**Goofball** · 10-12-2011, 01:42

None of the states that allow gay marriage were trying to ban other types of marriage on the grounds that the sanctity of marriage would be violated and using the argument that it would lead to other aberrations such as incest. So I don't see that there was much of a point to your observation.

**Montmorency** · 10-12-2011, 01:43

None of the states that allow gay marriage were trying to ban other types of marriage on the grounds that the sactity of marriage would be violated and using the argument that it would lead to other aberrations such as incest.

Can't say I've ever heard that one, so...

**PanzerJaeger** · 10-12-2011, 02:04

Considering that the anti-gay movement is largely religious in nature, I think this seemingly apparent logical dissonance can be traced to the Bible. Quite frankly, the characters described in the Old Testament lived like trailer trash. All sorts of sordid, entangled incestuous relationships are played out in its many pages. It reads like a transcript from Jerry Springer at times. And as we all know, trash will intermarry to keep it in the family, but they don't take kindly to no man on man love. It just ain't right.