Posted on 09/30/2013 6:14:05 PM PDT by markomalley
AFAIK, such marriages are perfectly legal in most US states.
I personally know of a widower who married his deceased wife's sister, quite a few years after her death.
God-daughter is an entirely religious relationship that I doubt is recognized by the law in any state.
Under the Law of Moses a man was obligated to marry his dead childless brother's wife, even if he were already married to someone else. The basis of the Book of Ruth, which was about David's great-grandparents.
Jerry Lee Lewis and Loretta Lynn are shocked.
Until the late nineteenth century, the “age of consent” under common law and in most American states was ten.
A step-father is not genetically related to the step-daughter.
Thus marriage between a man and his step-daughter is, genetically speaking, an improvement on the common Muslim practice of first cousin marriage which a genetic risk.
Islam - where sexual perversion is an improvement on their usual incests.
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