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alp227

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Sat Feb 25, 2012, 03:12 AM Feb 2012

Rick Santorum predicted it...cons falsely accuse DeGrassi of promoting INCEST! [View all]

Last edited Sat Feb 25, 2012, 07:09 PM - Edit history (1)

"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything." --The candidate who shall not be named, in the infamous 2003 interview with the Associated Press

ConWebWatch highlights complaints by the Media Research Center's Culture and Media Institute claiming that the Canadian teen drama DeGrassi: The Next Generation (imported to the US via TeenNick channel) promoted...gasp...an INCESTUOUS RELATIONSHIP between (step)brother and (step)sister! The headline reveals the Santorum-like panic in the CMI writer: "TeenNick Endorses Teen Incest, Casual Sex in New Season Of ‘Degrassi’."

However, as CWW pointed out, incest has to be biological. I don't watch DeGrassi, but I have enough common sense unlike the wingnuts at MRC/CMI to assume the least controversial situation: the two characters had the same father but are related via the father's remarriage.

(ETA) Canada has same sex marriage I just remembered.

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