{"id":23854,"date":"2011-01-06T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/matthew_j-_franck-incest_and_the_degradation_of_our_vocabulary\/"},"modified":"2011-01-06T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T16:00:15","slug":"matthew_j-_franck-incest_and_the_degradation_of_our_vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23854","title":{"rendered":"Matthew J. Franck&#8211;Incest and the Degradation of Our Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of David Epstein, the Columbia University political scientist and Huffington Post blogger now facing criminal charges of incest, has launched a very interesting discussion. What is fascinating about it, and deeply disturbing, is the inability of some commentators to articulate what is morally wrong about the act of incest. It is almost equally disturbing that a legal argument for a \u201cright\u201d\u009d to engage in adult, consensual incest stands on surprisingly firm footing, thanks to precedents the United States Supreme Court has already established in other cases on the \u201cautonomy of the person\u201d\u009d under our Constitution&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2011\/01\/2316\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of David Epstein, the Columbia University political scientist and Huffington Post blogger now facing criminal charges of incest, has launched a very interesting discussion. What is fascinating about it, and deeply disturbing, is the inability of some commentators<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23854\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,576,101,168,114,98,155,117,129,108,424,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-other-faiths","category-philosophy","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-secularism","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}