[ClearCase_guy]

(According to a 2018 Columbia University study, the chances of cousins having a genetic disorder is 4 to 7%, compared to 3 to 4% for non-related couples.)

Normalization of incest, bestiality, and pedophilia continues to march forward in tiny steps. Plenty of people see articles like this and don't recognize the slippery slope.

[BenLurkin]

They need to get to an Obama judge. Heck, an Obama judge probably wouldn’t convict for brother/sister pairings.

[struggle]

If only they were Pakistani

[CurlyDave]

I think that if they were legally married in a state where the relationship was legal they ought to be OK anywhere because of the requirement that all states give full faith and credit to the laws of other states.

[Amberdawn]

Gross, WTF is wrong with people and their families allowing this?

[RealVirginia]

There’s a video of them french kissing enthusiastically. Gross.

[Stingray51]

Most Pakistani immigrants to the UK marry their first cousins. Not only is it legal, it is the norm.

[yldstrk]

Whatever, Utah is pro bigamy this can’t be a problem

[Bonemaker]

Doesn’t that make him an uncle?

[Okeydoker]

Mormons? Betcha

[yarddog]

I had a first cousin who would have been very hard to resist. We were the same age but our parents would never have allowed it.

[AppyPappy]

My in-laws are first cousins.

[dp0622]

If they are happy, is it affecting you? They’re not brother and sister.

[Theoria]

[heartwood]

Twenty states allow first cousin marriage. I have married cousin in my ancestry and so do you, I’m sure.

The Bible doesn’t forbid it although the Roman Catholic church does.

It isn’t particularly harmful unless practiced repeatedly.

Publicity hound parents, otoh, are a problem. Society and their baby are best served by ignoring them.

[mumblypeg]

But if they’d aborted the baby, sold pieces and put the leftovers down the garbage disposal, no problem.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

According to a 2018 Columbia University study, the chances of cousins having a genetic disorder is 4 to 7%, compared to 3 to 4% for non-related couples.

According to a study of Pakistanis in Britain, among whom marriage between first cousins is common, the risk of birth defects doubles - from 3% in ordinary births to 6% in the case of kids born of first-cousin incest.

Doubling the chance that your child will suffer birth defects because you can't find someone more attractive to you than your own flesh and blood seems pretty demented.

[MrEdd]

Thirty three posts and still no Elvis picture.

[Meatspace]

Every single one of us has ancestors who were first cousins.

And we are okay.

[Ouderkirk]

One only need look at the muzloid world for evidence that cosanguinous breeding is a bad idea and why civilization has shunned it since for ever.