Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 23:45:35 +0100 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org>, Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Senator Santorum Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20030506233728.07e23528@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030506121650.K51947@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> References: <5.0.2.1.1.20030506182557.07db3820@popserver.sfu.ca> <ADAEB726-7FD9-11D7-8EA4-000393A335A2@mac.com> <ADAEB726-7FD9-11D7-8EA4-000393A335A2@mac.com> <5.0.2.1.1.20030506182557.07db3820@popserver.sfu.ca>
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At 12:29 06/05/2003 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >On Tue, 6 May 2003, Colin Percival wrote: > > Not quite. Bigamy and polygamy aren't questions of sex; they're > > questions of marriage. > >They are also crimes in the US, which is the point he's making. Actually, >you're supporting my argument, even if you don't realize it. :) If we >decide that removing the laws against sodomy is ok because you have the >right to do whatever you want behind closed doors, then the laws against >the other things he mentioned should be removed too, for the same reason >(see below for one important qualification). Bigamy isn't something which goes on behind closed doors. Marriage is a matter of public record; someone who is only a bigamist behind closed doors is no more than an adulterer. >> personally I don't see where the problem > > lies with incest, providing that no (genetically impaired) children are > > born of it, > >... and providing that all parties involved are "adults" in the sense that >they are capable of giving informed consent to the acts in question. That >of course is an entirely different topic of discussion. Of course. Most cases of incest are also cases of rape -- and they should be prosecuted as that, not as incest. > > and I can't think of any civilized state where adultery is illegal. > >The limitations of your knowledge are not my responsibility. :) To take a >trivial example, the Uniform Code of Military Justice in the US has >penalties for adultery, although I'm not enough of an expert to make the >distinction of whether it proclaims it "illegal," which is an oft-misused >term. We evidently have different definitions of "civilized". ;) Colin Percival
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