{"id":22097,"date":"2014-09-25T05:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22097"},"modified":"2014-09-25T05:49:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T09:49:13","slug":"german-ethics-council-declares-incest-a-fundamental-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/german-ethics-council-declares-incest-a-fundamental-right\/","title":{"rendered":"German Ethics Council declares incest a \u201cfundamental right\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/germany\/11119062\/Incest-a-fundamental-right-German-committee-says.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Laws banning incest between brothers and sisters in Germany could be scrapped after a government ethics committee said they were an unacceptable intrusion into the right to sexual self-determination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCriminal law is not the appropriate means to preserve a social taboo,\u201d the German Ethics Council said in a statement. \u201cThe fundamental right of adult siblings to sexual self-determination is to be weighed more heavily than the abstract idea of protection of the family.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem for the Anglican Church will be this: if the church redefines marriage to include same sex couples, what possible reason could it have to exclude opposite sex siblings in monogamous, committed, faithful relationships?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Laws banning incest between brothers and sisters in Germany could be scrapped after a government ethics committee said they were an unacceptable intrusion into the right to sexual self-determination. \u201cCriminal law is not the appropriate means to preserve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/german-ethics-council-declares-incest-a-fundamental-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[1899,2173],"class_list":["post-22097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incest","tag-german-ethics-council","tag-incest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}