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\"Judge-Garry-Nielson-2003\"

Garry Nielson.<\/p><\/div>\n

An Australian judge is in hot water after suggesting that incest should <\/a>be destigmatized. The not-so-honorable Garry Nielson compared incestuous relationships to–surprise, surprise!–gay marriage, and said the only real consequence was genetic abnormalities in offspring. Which isn’t really a problem anymore, because it can be easily solved with…drumroll, please… abortion!<\/p>\n

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He said incest was now only a crime because it may lead to abnormalities in offspring but this rationale was increasingly irrelevant because of the availability of contraception and abortion.<\/p>\n

“A jury might find nothing untoward in the advance of a brother towards his sister once she had sexually matured, had sexual relationships with other men and was now ‘available’, not having [a] sexual partner,” the judge said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“If this was the 1950s and you had a jury of 12 men there, which is what you’d invariably have, they would say it’s unnatural for a man to be interested in another man or a man being interested in a boy. Those things have gone.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Did I mention that he said this\u00a0during the trial of a man accused of raping his then 11-year-old sister? What a charmer! I’m sure the victim agrees that\u00a0all of her problems could have been solved with a trip to Planned Parenthood for birth control and abortion.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor in the case is demanding that Nielson be removed for these crowd-pleaser comments, calling them “misogynistic and disgraceful” and that “the reference to abortion was particularly repellent.”<\/p>\n

It’s easy to dismiss this story because it reads like something from The Onion<\/em>. Sure, Judge Nielson sounds like a buffoon who embraces evil and perversion in the name of breaking down societal barriers. But we can’t just laugh this off.<\/p>\n

There is no doubt that Nielson, who holds a powerful position in the Australian court system, is dead serious. Next,\u00a0he and his ilk will be recommending manatory<\/em> abortion for pregnant incest victims–and they might just get their way. I’m sure euthanasia for disabled children<\/a> in Belgium once sounded nutty, too.<\/p>\n

Ideas have consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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