wonder if she was on the swim team?
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...) ;-)
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.
wonder if she was on the swim team?
California allowed marriege between 1st cousins in the 1980s. I don’t know whether the law has changed.
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".
But she swims like a mermaid
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.
Is that Michael Phelp’s sister?
If you play Boogie-Woogie and Rockabilly piano don’t...otherwise OK.
Saudi Arabia’s cousin-marriage epidemic
Analyst cites negative health effects of age-old practice in kingdom
http://www.wnd.com/2005/05/30246/
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.
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.
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.
I had a second cousin I used to make out with in my mid teens. It was fun.
Take a look at the English royal family. The queen and her husband are third cousins. That explains why Prince Charlie is an idiot.
I wonder if they would allow her on the swim team?
It was okay in the Bible ...
I want to marry Billthedrill’s cousin, the one who can play bassoon with her tentacles...
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.
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