The plaintiff’s son, now an adult, agrees with the petition and also asked for his identity to be kept confidential as the news could lead to rejection.
A man, whose identity and information is generally kept confidential at his own request, is filed for permission in the courts of New York, United States, to marry his own biological son.
According to the Clarín newspaper, the man has sued federal court in Manhattan to repeal laws in force that prohibit incestuous practices. The man affirms that these practices belong to “individual autonomy”, and that everyone should have the freedom to practice them or not.
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The plaintiff’s son, already an adult, agreed with the request and also asked for his identity to be kept confidential, as the news may provoke rejection or disgust in various social segments that would view the case as an immoral action.
In the lawsuit filed April 1, the man argues that repealing the law would allow him and his son to legally marry and experience a more expressive intimacy and a higher level of spirituality between them.
However, current New York state law sets a 4-year prison sentence for people who commit incest as it is considered a third-degree crime, therefore the prosecution’s marriage and his son cannot be done and both would. be sentenced to pay large fines, in addition to imprisonment.
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One of the main obstacles in this type of case, according to the Office of the City Clerk, is that official marriage permits in New York’s five counties also require information from the spouses’ biological father and mother. to establish that there are no legal impediments to marriage, which would conflict with the crime of incest that, in this case, is causing the relationship.
In the documents consulted by the local newspaper The New York Post, the context of the relationship is not known, not even the sex of those involved, it is only known that they are father and son and that they cannot reproduce, which would mean they are people of the same sex.
The father, for his part, confirms that until the law condemning incest is repealed, he will not officially ask his son to marry because “he would have to bear the emotional damage” of not being able to be legally married .