Slate's William Saletan: "Incest Repellent? If Gay Sex Is Private, Why Isn't Incest?"

The following article was written in the fairly liberal online Slate magazine. The article was written before the 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas in which the Supreme Court declared sodomy laws unconstitutional. Before that decision was handed down, then Senator Rick Santorum argued, "If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery."

The author of the article, who himself is a socially liberal and in favor of gay marriage, was curious as to whether the Human Rights Campaign, the largest gay rights organization, could actually explain why Santorum was wrong. He explains his contact and interviews with people at the top of the Human Rights Campaign and how their attempts to explain their position was rather lacking in consistency and basic reasoning. It's an old article, but still worth reading at http://www.slate.com/id/2081904/ Tweet