[quote="Ina Baxar"]#1 Baller check this out ! transcripts from "Paula Zahn Now" on CNN
ZAHN: Tonight, believe it or not, the idea of legalizing incest is out in the open. It is one of the world's last and strongest taboos, something few of us ever feel comfortable talking about. But the couple you're about to meet is now asking the highest court in Germany to make it legal.
Frederik Pleitgen has their shocking love story.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's so sick.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, they're OK people.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not to me.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why not? Well, what -- well, hold on. What...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just don't -- I just think that's disgusting. That's all.
FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): These are comments about their relationship. Patrick and Susan are in love.
Two-year-old Sofia is one of their four children, a typical family, except the parents are brother and sister, an illegal relationship under German law.
We met the so-called "incest couple" in their apartment in Leipzig, Germany. Patrick was raised in a foster home, and did not meet Susan until she was 16, and he was 22. They fell in love, and started a family, even though they knew they were brother and sister.
For two years, they have been fighting a court battle to get their relationship legalized. German social services have taken away three of their children because of the incestuous relationship. Two of the kids were born with disabilities, legal documents say.
Germany's highest court has now decided it will hear their case. If they lose, however, Patrick will have to go to jail for two years for having incestuous sex with his sister.
We feel the tension as we go out to film the couple walking together. All of a sudden, Patrick starts yelling at his sister. He doesn't like her attitude, he says.
"When I see her make that face, I can't take it," he yells.
Both are aware the camera is present. Susan says nothing, and simply takes the verbal abuse. This shows the pressure Patrick is under, he himself later explained, but the siblings appear to be genuinely in love, hugging and cuddling up often during breaks in our filming. The question the country's highest court will have to answer now, should this man go to jail, be separated from his family for another two years, for falling in love with his sister?
We got mixed opinions from those we spoke to.
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Ina Baxar,
I don't get it. Even if someone from a western european nation are making a statement for its legalization, it doesn't mean that it is right now does it?
I mean there are morality issues with it in the US. There's a reason why God created us with different bloodlines don't ya think?
I will read this article in detail when I get off of work. I don't have the time right now.
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