From Duetsche Welle:German Incest Convict to Take Case to Highest Court
The lawyer representing a Saxon couple found guilty of incest said the siblings will take their case to Germany's Constitutional Court. It's the final step in a long and contentious legal battle.Attorney Endrik Wilhelm said the siblings, Patrick S. and Susan K., would be filing their historic appeal after a district court in Dresden refused to override a jail sentence Patrick faces. The case, Wilhelm told the daily Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten newspaper, would be to challenge the constitutionality of paragraph 173 of the German Criminal Code, which outlaws sexual relations between close relatives.
The siblings have been in and out of the courts for the past five years. In 2002 Patrick S. was given a suspended sentence of one year in prison for sleeping with his sister. In 2004 he served 10 months in jail for violating the terms of the original conviction, and in 2005 he was sentenced to two-and-a-half years incarceration for incest.
Susan K. never received any jail time since she was always tried as an adolescent. The siblings have four children -- Susan K. has a fifth child from a different father.
The sentence Patrick S. currently faces contains no possibility of parole.
Unusual Family HistoryPatrick S. and Susan K. are immediate relatives, but they did not grow up as brother and sister. Patrick was adopted and raised by a family in Potsdam, while Susan spent her childhood with their mutual mother in Leipzig.
The two met in May 2000, after Patrick decided to contact his biological family. Their first child was born a year later.
Anti-incest laws have been taken off the books in a number of countries including France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Turkey, Japan, Argentina and Brazil.
Now the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe will be asked to decide if Germany should follow those nations' lead or if it can retain its current legislation.
Today, the issue is whether Germany can say that incest is illegal. Soon, the arguments will be made that if incest is no longer illegal, how can society say that a brother and sister (or any combination of individuals) cannot be married.
The traditional definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman is being rewritten with New Jersey being the latest state to implement "Civil Unions". But, how can marriage or civil unions be limited to two "individuals"? Who can tell Patrick S. and Susan K. that their love is not as real or as valid as anyone else's? Who will be so bigoted and heartless?
The die is cast and it's only a matter of time before the word marriage will be made archaic in the West. It will be redefined until it no longer has meaning and eventually governments will no longer recognize "marriage" at all.
The bed rock foundation of every functional and survivable human society is based upon the family union of a man and a woman, the children they produce, the survival of the tribe they are part of, and the evolution to civilization and posterity.
ReplyDeleteThe marriage of a man and a woman are opposite sides to the helix of humanity. All other human relationships are subordinate, no matter what name you attach to it. It is so fundamental it never had to be distinguished until this era, no more than you had to explain to someone that they had to breathe.
Civil rights are one thing, protection under the law another, but sanction of an absurd proposition and the numbing of common sense is an indication of a collapse in rational thought, understanding and human history.
Whit said, The die is cast and it's only a matter of time before the word marriage will be made archaic in the West. It will be redefined until it no longer has meaning and eventually governments will no longer recognize
ReplyDelete"marriage" at all.
When two people get married, it means a lot to each other, and they ought not really give a crap if the government recognizes it or not. So long as the Church recognizes it, or their clan recognizes it, they should attach less importance to the words, "By the power invested in me by the State of New Jersey I pronounce you man and wife" and more importance to the words "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
Well said, Deuce.
ReplyDeleteAnd Whit, too - I didn't see your byline down there.
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ReplyDeleteGod never put two women together.
Aha
ReplyDeleteFigure that the logic of PC demands decriminalization of every single crime that can concievably be deemed "victimless".
Given the emphasis on the rights of the child (over parents), abandonment of any traditional moral structure, and polymorphous perversity I think we will see sometime soon a see a PC push to decriminalize pedophilia down to age 13.
Figure also that decriminalization of every possible kind of drug is somewhere on the agenda as well. This has halfway happened in Holland.
In place of such laws, instead there will be thought crimes masquerading as hate speech and antidiscrimination laws. It will not be legal to even question the wisdom of immigration policy or amorality of legislation, since that may be construed as hatefull or discriminatory. This is already happening in Great Britain.
In a rare display of good sense just over a year ago the Latvian parliament succeeded in pushing through a constitutional amendment defining marriage the traditional way, precisely in order to forestall this nonsense.
FP said:
ReplyDeleteGiven the emphasis on the rights of the child (over parents), abandonment of any traditional moral structure, and polymorphous perversity I think we will see sometime soon a see a PC push to decriminalize pedophilia down to age 13.
Homosexuals in Great Britain tried that a few years ago and were narrowly defeated in Parliament.
It seems that the countries that had to endure the communist boot have a much cleared vision on the sometimes tenuous ropes that sustain society.
ReplyDeleteThank you our esteemed Latvian friend.
Speaking of polymorphous perversions, Wyoming might have a problem.
ReplyDeleteFellow peacekeeper said Given the emphasis on the rights of the child (over parents), abandonment of any traditional moral structure, and polymorphous perversity I think we will see sometime soon a see a PC push to decriminalize pedophilia down to age 13.
ReplyDeleteThe forbidden fruit syndrome will kick in, and Congressmen want to go camping with 12 year old pages.
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ReplyDeleteIs that all we can do?
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