Incest on the Brave New Moral Frontier: Isn’t Gay “Marriage” Just the Beginning?

Scratch the surface of politicians these days, and you’ll find that the driving force is power and money, the keys which seem to unlock privilege, advantage, and well-being for governments and individuals.

      Heritage, tradition, religion and other conservative values are often important only for appearances, to leave an impression purely designed to elicit votes.  “You have to game the crowd” they tell themselves.

       Now that gay sex has glommed onto the Civil Rights Movement for the “no criticism allowed” protection that political correctness affords, it’ll be interesting to see what now-tabooed relationships will seek legal validation and public acceptance.  After all, in our libertarian culture, taboos are associated with witchcraft and other primitive, irrational notions, aren’t they?

       It seems likely that loving, caring, consensual relationships will remain the key slogan and mantra to forge new social norms in the future.  This drive-by morality works well with armchair television watchers.  Thanks for not making things too complicated–and letting everyone feel that they’ve achieved a moral high ground.  “It’s my body and I’ll do what I damn well please,” young unmarried women arrogantly proclaim when the subject of abortions comes up.  Woe to the unborn baby’s rights.

        Now the otherwise-respected BBC Call the Midwife miniseries (graphic) has decided to push the “marriage” moral envelope with its highly sympathetic portrayal of incest, based on a loving, caring, consensual relationship between a brother and sister, who live together (Season 1, Episode 5) in a manner that appears so exemplary that most viewers will shed scruples without knowing they’ve been had.

      After incest becomes a Civil Right, will it be long before pedophiles clamor to come out of the closet in the same way? Isn’t moral equivalency and equality what it’s all about?