Tuesday, March 23, 2004
AND THE SLIPPERY SLOPE BEGINS...
Well, just a few months after ruling that Massachusetts must find a law that allows homosexual marriage because something in the Mass. Constitution requires it...there's this little item:
High court: incest law doesn't apply to stepparents
It's the case of a 60-year-old man accused of having sex with his teenage stepdaughter, the Supreme Judicial Court said under the current law the incest prohibition applies only to natural or adoptive parents. Astonishingly, they said in the ruling:
"...While the idea that this form of 'incest' may not be criminal may be repugnant to many, the words of a statute cannot be stretched beyond their fair meaning..."
So because it wasn't written in law EXACTLY - the court couldn't go beyond what was a fair meaning of "incest"...
So, unless we exactly specify that marriage is between one man and one woman who are not relatives and/or brothers, sisters, cousins, fathers, sons, daughters, once removed cousins from your mothers side, divorced widow of a previous husband you dated...
Well, you get the idea. Let the slippery slide begin here and now...
Well, just a few months after ruling that Massachusetts must find a law that allows homosexual marriage because something in the Mass. Constitution requires it...there's this little item:
High court: incest law doesn't apply to stepparents
It's the case of a 60-year-old man accused of having sex with his teenage stepdaughter, the Supreme Judicial Court said under the current law the incest prohibition applies only to natural or adoptive parents. Astonishingly, they said in the ruling:
"...While the idea that this form of 'incest' may not be criminal may be repugnant to many, the words of a statute cannot be stretched beyond their fair meaning..."
So because it wasn't written in law EXACTLY - the court couldn't go beyond what was a fair meaning of "incest"...
So, unless we exactly specify that marriage is between one man and one woman who are not relatives and/or brothers, sisters, cousins, fathers, sons, daughters, once removed cousins from your mothers side, divorced widow of a previous husband you dated...
Well, you get the idea. Let the slippery slide begin here and now...
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