Comment & Debate
Jeff Jacoby. “Lawful incest may be on its way”. Boston Globe. May 2, 2007 – In Lawrence, it is worth remembering, the Supreme Court didn’t just invalidate all state laws making homosexual sodomy a crime. It also overruled its own decision just 17 years earlier (Bowers v. Hardwick, 1986) upholding such laws. If the court meant what it said in Lawrence — that states are barred from “making . . . private sexual conduct a crime” — it will not take that long for laws criminalizing incest to go by the board as well. Impossible? That’s what they used to say about normalizing homosexuality and legalizing same-sex marriage.