SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, SLIPPERY SLOPE RHETORIC, AND THE POLITICS OF DISGUST: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON CONTEMPORARY FAMILY DISCOURSE AND THE INCEST TABOO

From: Northwestern University Law Review | Date: July 1, 2005| Author: Cahill, Courtney Megan | Copyright information

"Incest" is symbolic of the special way in which the pattern of social relationships, as they are normatively defined, can be broken .... "Incest" means the wrong way to act in a relationship ... To act not merely wrong, but to act in a manner opposite to that which is proper. It is to "desecrate" relationships. It is to act "ungrammatically."

-David Schneider, The Meaning of Incest

Law is rife with slippery slope rhetoric. When pressed to describe the potential harm that could ...

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