Word: incest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Europe defied this taboo, merrily marrying their cousins, with tragic genetic consequences for their offspring. For gay marriage there are no such genetic consequences. The child of a gay couple would either be adopted or the biological product of only one parent. Therefore the fundamental basis for the incest taboo disappears in gay marriage...
...problem here is not the slippery slope. It is not that if society allows gay marriage, society will then allow polygamy or incest. It won't. The people won't allow polygamy or incest. Even the gay-marriage advocates won't allow...
...point is why they won't allow it. They won't allow it because they think polygamy and incest wrong or unnatural or perhaps harmful. At bottom, because they find these practices psychologically or morally abhorrent, certainly undeserving of society's blessing...
They do so because of various considerations: tradition, utility, religion, moral preference. Not good enough reasons, say the gay activists. No? Then show me yours for opposing polygamy and incest...
Student government at Harvard has long been plagued by electoral incest among the old boys who controlled the Undergraduate Council and the accompanying corruption. But we believe the accountability to which students can now hold council executives will endow those offices with a new credibility. Robert M. Hyman '98-'97, the newly inaugurated president, seems to understand that this new stature will be possible only if the council keeps student interests at heart. The "Students' Bill of Rights" which served as his campaign platform, accurately assesses the needs of undergraduates for the most part, even if it falsely couches...