Thursday, December 16, 2010

More Coverage of Swiss Proposal

Salon.com covers the proposal to drop Switzerland’s bigoted law against some forms of consanguineous sex.

Marriage between second-degree relatives (aunt/uncle, niece/nephew) is already legal in Switzerland, but the new measure would overturn the ban on consensual sexual relationships between siblings, and between parents and their adult children. (Sexual relationships with underage children would, of course, remain illegal.) The text of the bill has yet to be released, but skeeved-out opponents have heard more than enough. Barbara Schmid Federer, a member of The Christian People's Party of Switzerland, told the Telegraph that the proposal was "completely repugnant" and that she "could not countenance painting out such a law from the statute books."

Why not? Switzerland does not criminalize every thing that someone thinks is bad.

From the Telegraph

Daniel Vischer, a Green party MP, said he saw nothing wrong with two consenting adults having sex, even if they were related.

"Incest is a difficult moral question, but not one that is answered by penal law," he said.

Thank you, Daniel Vischer. The consensual sex life of adults should not be the business of the government.

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