Attorney for man accused of incest asks: if homosexual sex is legal, why not this?

[John81]

Attorney for man accused of incest asks: if homosexual sex is legal, why not this?
by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
Fri Dec 17, 2010 18:23 EST

(LifeSiteNews.com) - The attorney for David Epstein, a Colombia university professor charged with incest with his adult daughter, is defending sex between family members by appealing to homosexual “rights” as a precedent.

Epstein’s lawyer, Matthew Galluzzo, told ABC News that “It’s OK for homosexuals to do whatever they want in their own home. How is this so different? We have to figure out why some behavior is tolerated and some is not.”

“What goes on between consenting adults in private should not be legislated. That is not the proper domain of our law,” Galluzo told the Huffington Post, which publishes Epstein’s articles. “If we assume for a moment that both parties are consenting, then why are we prosecuting this?”

“Academically, we are OBviously all morally opposed to incest and rightfully so,” Galluzzo stated in his interview with ABC . “At the same time, there is an argument to be made in the Swiss case to let go what goes on privately in bedrooms.”

Galluzzo was referring to a Swiss legislative initiative to legalize incest between consenting adults, a measure that has not been approved and is reportedly rejected by 60% of Swiss citizens.

Professor Joanna L. Grossman, in an interview with ABC News, pointed to the wording of of the 2003 Supreme Court decision striking down sodomy laws. The decision, said Grossman said that the government cannot prohibit “private, consensual, sexual or intimate conduct that does not involve minors or coercion.” The same words, by implication, would make incest legal.

Galluzzo denies that Epstein’s daughter, who was 21 years old when the relationship allegedly began, is a victim. While insisting that the charges are “only allegations” and are unproven, Galluzzo claims that Epstein’s daughter could “best be described as an accomplice”.

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[Kubel]

I don't believe a secular free government can restrict incest between two (or more) consenting people any more than it can restrict polygamy or homosexuality; they are all moral matters. In the interest of making the government more secular, incest might be legalized just as homosexuality is. But in the interest of public health, our socialist government will prOBably not permit it any time soon.

[Crushmaster]

There's nothing "free" about a secular government.

Thanks for sharing, brother.

Merry Christmas, all!
God bless,
Joel ><>.
2 Chronicles 7:14.

[John81]

There's nothing "free" about a secular government.

Thanks for sharing, brother.

Merry Christmas, all!
God bless,
Joel ><>.
2 Chronicles 7:14.

[JerryNumbers]

What is there to stop a government from making whatever laws it wishes?

To be honest, that seems what the America government, our congressmen and president does.

[1John2:15-17]

Mutiny? Revolt?

[John81]

What should be the Christian response to this and why are so few of us doing that?

[trc123]

What should be the Christian response to this and why are so few of us doing that?

Repent and be saved by the blood of the Lamb; not repent and pass a law to forbid. While I'm all for laws forbidding both, I see no where in the New Testament Scriptures that give that as a command to the Christian in how to deal with various sins.

[John81]

Repent and be saved by the blood of the Lamb; not repent and pass a law to forbid. While I'm all for laws forbidding both, I see no where in the New Testament Scriptures that give that as a command to the Christian in how to deal with various sins.

And it is we who are already born again in Christ who are to be spreading the Gospel, seeking the lost and sharing Christ with them, showing and sharing the love of Christ with the poor and needy, giving sacrificially to those spreading the Gospel, living Christlike for the world to see...