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I want to marry my cousin...
djf

Posted on 01/17/2015 10:54:02 AM PST by djf

Well, not really. But maybe!

Can you marry your cousin? It's an interesting question.

In some states, YES, you CAN marry your first cousin! In other states - it's a no-no, forbidden.

Now HOW and WHY was this state of affairs (or marriages, be it whatever) allowed to exist? How and why did states HAVE THE RIGHT to determine under what conditions marriage was allowable?

Because it was RECOGNIZED by the federal government that equal protection WAS NOT VIOLATED by such marriages!

Thoughts? Ideas?

(btw, my cousin is kind of cute, but she's just not my type...) ;-)


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: cousins; homosexualagenda; incest; marriage; marriagelaws; statesrights
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To: djf

You from West(by God) Virgina, by chance?


41 posted on 01/17/2015 11:26:04 AM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

They look a lot like the muslim nut jobs that killed Hebdo.


42 posted on 01/17/2015 11:27:38 AM PST by Bluebeard16
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To: beebuster2000

I’m still laughing on that one.


43 posted on 01/17/2015 11:27:43 AM PST by Rappini (Veritas Vos Liberabit)
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To: beebuster2000
"I see'd what you dun there..."


44 posted on 01/17/2015 11:28:07 AM PST by moovova
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The government hardly seriously goes after polygamists nowadays anyways, a lot of these groups also see themselves as not part of the U.S. even though they live within U.S. territory. Go figure, because if a general tea partier is more dangerous then one of these people who blatantly consider themselves not Amerocan, we really are living in Bizarro World.


45 posted on 01/17/2015 11:28:27 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: KoRn

You from West(by God) Virgina, by chance?


I think it’s West, by God, stand up, smile when you say it, Virginia.

IIRC


46 posted on 01/17/2015 11:28:30 AM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Dallas59

Dang. Just dang.


47 posted on 01/17/2015 11:30:12 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: djf
Shelbyville Manhattan: I tell you, I won't live in a town that robs men of the right to marry their cousins!


48 posted on 01/17/2015 11:30:39 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: djf

You can marry anyone or anything or any number that you want.

The Supreme Court has no problem with it and it will make Obamacare easier to implement if you have many spouses.

Don’t worry about the genetics thing. We are going out of existence as a country and as a culture, so enjoy yourself while it’s happening. You can abort any undesirable outcomes of your incest in the near term.

BTW - FDR married his cousin.


49 posted on 01/17/2015 11:31:47 AM PST by oldbill
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To: Dallas59

That poor girl must give her pedicurists aneuyrisms when she goes in for a pedi.


50 posted on 01/17/2015 11:32:55 AM PST by txhurl
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To: Eurotwit

IMHO, most people have enough sense in their heads not to have children with their cousins. Plus the other factor: Arranged Marriage, isn’t the way any more.


51 posted on 01/17/2015 11:33:05 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Father/Daughter to marry

This is HORRIFYING. From USA Today, so ...

52 posted on 01/17/2015 11:33:11 AM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Eurotwit

“Some mention the muslim world. In many countries cousin marriage is the norm.”

One result is a HUGE incidence of diabetes.

From the WSJ...

“Roughly one in five people has diabetes in the Persian Gulf region, according to doctors and the International Diabetes Federation, or IDF, and three countries—Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar—are in the top 10 nations globally for the highest prevalence of the disease. The other seven places are all taken by tiny islands in the Pacific Ocean, while Bahrain sits at position 12, the United Arab Emirates is 15 and Egypt is at 17.”


53 posted on 01/17/2015 11:34:00 AM PST by RedEyeJack
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To: Dallas59

Will Tinactin work for Athlete’s Web?


54 posted on 01/17/2015 11:34:20 AM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Don W

What’s bad is they give a “genetics” excuse for incest.

Sound familiar?


55 posted on 01/17/2015 11:36:35 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: djf

In Pakistan, 50% of marriages are to first cousins


56 posted on 01/17/2015 11:41:12 AM PST by PGR88
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To: djf

Okay time to take the teeth out and pass em to the next person!


57 posted on 01/17/2015 11:45:17 AM PST by zaxtres
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To: djf

I have a friend whose daughter married her 1st cousin. And another friend ( in another state) who has a friend who married her cousin.

I’m a little uncomfortable with marrying your cousin. I have a feeling it happens more often than people realize.


58 posted on 01/17/2015 11:52:26 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: TruthWillWin
Are you from Arkansas?

It's illegal in Arkansas. Where are you from?


59 posted on 01/17/2015 11:55:59 AM PST by eartrumpet
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To: djf
I've read that even first cousins have very little additional risk of having a baby with birth defects. Second cousins, none at all.

Used to be people never moved more than ten miles away from their small isolated villages. Lots of cousin marrying going on for millenia.

60 posted on 01/17/2015 11:56:24 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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