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To: DJB who wrote (1022)9/8/1999 10:28:00 AM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 6418
 
Why should society care whether a man marries his daughter when she comes of age? Two consenting adults doing something in the privacy of their own home, who are in love?

I would submit the reason many people feel homosexual relationships are distasteful is the same reasons they feel incestuous relationships are distasteful. And therefore the marriage is illegal because it has been forbidden by culture.

Can you give me another plausible reason?

Michael



To: DJB who wrote (1022)9/8/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: The Philosopher  Respond to of 6418
 
How does a heterosexual incestuous relationship have anything to do with
homosexuality?


I don't know what he answer will be.

But you might consider whether they aren't both examples of social taboos reflected at least in part in religious prohibitions.