Rick Santorum Was Right About Incest and the Slippery Slope

From Dr. Michael Brown:

In April 2003, Senator Rick Santorum stated that, “If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] 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. You have the right to anything.” For this he was mocked and vilified. It turns out he was right.

In my last article, “Here Comes Incest, Just as Predicted,” I pointed to a small but growing societal trend towards the acceptance of consensual, adult incest, especially when these unions do not produce children. I had already written about this in 2011 in A Queer Thing Happened to America where I warned that, “The trajectory is all too clear!” Others, of course, have differed with that assessment.

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