Rick Santorum predicted it...cons falsely accuse DeGrassi of promoting INCEST!

[alp227]

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"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.

[enuegii]

1. If two siblings have the same father,

aren't they half-siblings, and not step-siblings?

Some might consider a sexual relationship between the two as, if not actually incestuous, then at least "incestuish."

[hobbit709]

2. The only way that there wouldn't be any incest

The current step-parents each had a child by a different spouse in a previous relationship.
After that, the current step-parents married, each bringing a child from previous to new family.
They would each be a step-parent to the other's child but there would be no direct genetic relationship between step-brother and step-sister.

[targetpractice]

3. (e.g., The Brady Bunch)

Lot's of opportunity there.

[libodem]

4. Yuck

Gross. Thanks for the visual.

[Iggo]

5. The characters aren't related at all.

Each parent came into the marriage with kids.