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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
I know somebody who married his cousin..They're a good couple, they didn't have children and they're still married after 30 years..
61 posted on 01/17/2015 12:04:55 PM PST by vigilante2 (Re-elect nobody)
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To: djf

Marriages between first cousins were quite common in the 1700s and 1800s. Sometimes it was to keep land and money in the family. Other times it was because they just didn’t know other potential mates.


62 posted on 01/17/2015 12:12:57 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Dallas59
wonder if she was on the swim team?
63 posted on 01/17/2015 12:14:47 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

California allowed marriege between 1st cousins in the 1980s. I don’t know whether the law has changed.


64 posted on 01/17/2015 12:15:04 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: djf
How and why did states HAVE THE RIGHT to determine under what conditions marriage was allowable?

If the Constitution does not give a power to the federal government, then it remains with the states and individuals.

... unless, of course, the Supreme Court decides otherwise, under some penumbra of the "commerce clause" or "equal protection".

65 posted on 01/17/2015 12:17:43 PM PST by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: txhurl
hat poor girl must give her pedicurists aneuyrisms when she goes in for a pedi.

But she swims like a mermaid

66 posted on 01/17/2015 12:27:01 PM 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

All powers not prescribed in the constitution are reserved for the states. The federal government has expanded and expanded. It is time for states to reassert themselves and take back those powers not explicitly given to the feds.


67 posted on 01/17/2015 12:36:54 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Dallas59

Is that Michael Phelp’s sister?


68 posted on 01/17/2015 12:42:20 PM PST by Batman11 (The orange, weeping, drunk, squishy oompah-loompah and Yertle McTurd-le gotta go!)
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To: djf

If you play Boogie-Woogie and Rockabilly piano don’t...otherwise OK.


69 posted on 01/17/2015 1:05:48 PM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: djf

Saudi Arabia’s cousin-marriage epidemic

Analyst cites negative health effects of age-old practice in kingdom

http://www.wnd.com/2005/05/30246/


70 posted on 01/17/2015 1:11:45 PM PST by donna
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To: Dilbert San Diego
"Now that we are on the verge of the Supreme Court declaring a constitutional right to homosexual marriage, other marriage restrictions such as this cousin ban, will eventually fall. All it takes is for pressure groups to force the issue through the courts."

I agree with you.

The only reason they have for not having incestuous relationships is because of genetic deformities. Now that there is contraception and abortions that is no longer a road block.

71 posted on 01/17/2015 1:14:19 PM PST by Spunky
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To: Pearls Before Swine
The Emperor Claudius' fourth wife was his own niece--a lot of Romans seem to have considered that incestuous. (She was the mother of the future emperor Nero by a previous marriage.)

Spartan kings seem to have married their nieces sometimes--at least Leonidas, famous for his heroic death at Thermopylae in 480 B.C., married his brother's daughter.

2 Samuel 13.13 implies that Amnon could have married his half-sister Tamar, but that is contradicted by Lev. 18.11.

72 posted on 01/17/2015 1:15:31 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Pearls Before Swine
The Emperor Claudius' fourth wife was his own niece--a lot of Romans seem to have considered that incestuous. (She was the mother of the future emperor Nero by a previous marriage.)

Spartan kings seem to have married their nieces sometimes--at least Leonidas, famous for his heroic death at Thermopylae in 480 B.C., married his brother's daughter.

2 Samuel 13.13 implies that Amnon could have married his half-sister Tamar, but that is contradicted by Lev. 18.11.

73 posted on 01/17/2015 1:15:31 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: djf

I had a second cousin I used to make out with in my mid teens. It was fun.


74 posted on 01/17/2015 1:42:53 PM PST by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: djf

Take a look at the English royal family. The queen and her husband are third cousins. That explains why Prince Charlie is an idiot.


75 posted on 01/17/2015 2:07:37 PM PST by forgotten man
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To: Dallas59

I wonder if they would allow her on the swim team?


76 posted on 01/17/2015 2:15:46 PM PST by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: djf

It was okay in the Bible ...


77 posted on 01/17/2015 2:35:54 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: 9thLife
“...why not just marry your dog?...” Right now you are only allowed to marry the other kind of “bitch.” PETA would be offended if you were to marry your dog. PC groups protesting against incest don't exist, so.......
78 posted on 01/17/2015 2:39:49 PM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: djf; Billthedrill

I want to marry Billthedrill’s cousin, the one who can play bassoon with her tentacles...


79 posted on 01/17/2015 3:00:52 PM PST by real saxophonist (Spam, Spam, Spam, Bacon, and Spam. Extra Bacon.)
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To: djf

I’m not sure anyone knows when first cousins marry. I knew Muslims from India who were married and first cousins. Who is going to track down anyone’s genetics? I bet I could marry my first cousin of either gender and no one would bother to check if we were related.


80 posted on 01/17/2015 3:02:51 PM PST by Yaelle (No Cruz? Then "I'm Ready for Hillary; What Difference Does It Make?")
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