This is an article from Huffington Post about Mike Huckabee comparing gay marriage to drug use and calling same-sex adoption experimentation. He says that by approving of same-sex marriage, we are just accommodating every behavioral pattern and would lead to support of incest and drug use.
Really, Mike? I think even Chuck Norris would disapprove...
I can't imagine that supporting same-sex marriage would lead to support of incest. There is a large amount of research to show that homosexual attraction is natural and influenced by birth-order and prenatal hormones. We can also change rats' mate preference by injecting sex hormones at a young age to make females exhibit mounting behavior and males display lordosis. On the other hand, women are repulsed by scents that that resemble kin during the fertile stage of the menstrual cycle and are always disgusted by their father's smell (indicative of a biological motive against incest).
What makes or breaks the support of an idea that seems taboo? Is it just enough people in support or something else? When do facts weigh out the ill-informed folks making statements based on personal values?
This is unbelievable. I really do not understand the logic of this argument. How can people just ignore the research about this topic? It just does not make sense to me at all. I agree with you, Dan. I don't see how supporting same-sex marriage would lead to support of incest. I guess this shouldn't really surprise me, especially since it is Mike Huckabee (I guess this gives away my liberal ideology).
I would like to think that eventually the overwhelming research evidence would finally start to support an idea, even if it is a social taboo. It may take a while, but I would like to think it could eventually happen.