Since Hollywood sets the moral climate for what’s left of western culture, it won’t be that long before incest between consenting adults is legal, those who disapprove will be labelled incestophobic bigots, and batty church denominations will be falling over themselves in the rush to be the first to offer a generous pastoral response to committed monogamous brother-sister relationships.
And why not? After all, as the director piously intones: ‘You know what? This whole movie is about judgment, and lack of it, and doing what you want.’
The last thing we want to do is judge anyone or stop them doing what they want.
From here:
The Hollywood film director behind beloved romantic drama, The Notebook, has proved himself a true champion of love by admitting he doesn’t think there is anything wrong with incest.
In an interview about his new movie, Yellow – which debuted at the Toronto Film Festival this weekend – Nick Cassavetes defended his protagonist’s affair with her brother.
The Alpha Dog director reasoned that since he had no personal experience in the matter, he didn’t believe he was in a position to condemn incest and went on to compare it to gay marriage.
Remember all the ‘tut-tutting’ about thin edge of the wedge and gay marriage arguments?
Indeed Kate. It is a very slippery slope that once we start our downward slide it is next to impossible to stop. Do you care to guess what will be at the bottom?
“generous pastoral response to committed monogamous brother-sister relationships”
David, you are not being inclusive enough. You should have also mentioned something about brother-brother and sister-sister relationships. Oh my, shame on me. I should also include parent-child relationships, but only when the child has reached the legal age of consent, which in Canada is now 16 years of age. You may recall the former MP Svend Robinson. Even 16 was too old for him and while on a House of Commons Committee introduced a motion that would have reduced the age to 14! This is well documented, and one wonders just how low would people like Svend want the age of consent reduced to. 12? 10? 8?!
“Thirteen Theses on Marriage”
Nine scholars and writers respond to pointed propositions about sex, gender, and marriage.
Douglas Farrow and Others
http://www.firstthings.com
Actually, you have some facts wrong. The age of consent for sexual intercourse is still 14 years in Canada, one of the lowest in the western world. The only country lower than us it Britain where it is 13. There was a motion to raise it to I think 16, but that was blocked in the Senate (a conservative controlled senate) and nothing else has happened since. The age of consent at 18 in Canada is the age where one can consent to marriage (in some provinces) which is different than sexual intercourse.
Svend Robinson DID NOT make a private member motion to reduce the age to 12 as you wrongly accuse him of doing. It was a motion to reduce the age of homosexual sex from 21 to 14. It became redundant, because the courts stepped in to reduce it with out Robinson’s motion even being debated.
If you read the article on the website I have posted, you can find it yourself.
http://www.realwomenca.com/page/newsljf0607.html
The age of consent in Britain has been 16 since 1885. The most recent amendment to the age of consent (in the Sexual Offences Act (Amendment) Act 2000) increased it to 18 where one partner is in a position of trust with respect to the other.
It is not me who is making the accusation. I found the information here
http://www.theinquiry.ca/REAL_consent.hide.php.
“Mr. Robinson then moved at that same Committee meeting, that the age of consent for buggery (anal intercourse) be lowered to 14 years of age from the then 21 years of age, on equality grounds in the Charter of Rights.”
This was, as I correctly indicated, a motion made in committee, and not a Private Members Motion made in the House of Commons. Also, please note, that I did not say that the motion was to reduce the age to 12, but did correctly say that is was to reduce the age to 14. I than wondered how much lower Svend would be wanting to go.
“You may recall the former MP Svend Robinson. Even 16 was too old for him and while on a House of Commons Committee introduced a motion that would have reduced the age to 14!”
Additionally, my source for the Age of Conscent in Canada is
http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/dept-min/clp/faq.html
which states
“What is Canada’s age of consent?
The age of consent for sexual activity is 16 years. It was raised from 14 years on May 1, 2008 by the Tackling Violent Crime Act.”
Kind regards,
AMP
Yes, indeed I do, Kate. Notice his deceit in eliding the major issue of procreativity in order to equate incest and gay marriage: “I’m not saying this is an absolute but in a way, if you’re not having kids – who gives a damn?”
But, really, it’s using shock as a cover for banality. As Dávila said, “In the society that is starting to take shape, not even the enthusiastic collaboration of the sodomite and the lesbian can save us from boredom.”