Oh please. People get a freaking life.
Unless "All Saints" was a documentary about genetics and down syndrome, go the f away.

It is a tv show.

Here is a little secret to those who want to press criminal or civil charges... the show isn't real. You see it is all make believe. Yeah, I know it is hard to believe, but it's true.

If you are getting medical advice, or information on genetic diseases from someone who got their job because they are attractive, you have bigger problems.

...wha?

First of all, what's up with a show with two characters being siblings and bumping uglies?

Anyway, this Down Syndrome of Austrailia group is clearly one guy in an office trying to justify the membership dues.

I can ALMOST see a complaint from some incest advocacy group but from a Down's group? As if people with Down's are even watching that show? I mean really.

Did the show suggest that incest is the only cause of Down's Syndrome, or only one cause?

I'd agree with the above, except one child with Down's has already been harassed because of the misinformation spread by the show. That is the complaint.

Imagine being chased around or even assaulted by people shouting that your parents are brother and sister!

You'd be amazed at the number of people who get their advanced education from the magic glowing box...

I do not agree with this statement. Because it isn't real, it doesn't give them the right to claim something that is false. If a TV show in this format would claim that black people have lower cognitive functions and that white people are in general smarter (A falsehood proclaimed by many racist extremists), it would insult a huge number of people, and there will be hell to pay for the show.

"It's just a TV show" doesn't cut it then. And it doesn't now.

That's unfortunate but the notion that incest has a chance of causing Down's has been around long before this show.

I do agree with you.

I think the issue is the question that incest causes Down Syndrome, but that the consequence for incest is Down Syndrome.

I can imagine that if I had a child with DS I wouldn't want to hear a TV show putting such a claim out there. That DS is a sort of penality for being a bad person.

Yeah, I would be pissed too.