Posted on 09/29/2025 5:50:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
Did you think the headline was a joke?
The UK's National Health Service is the country's government-run (socialistic) healthcare system.
Last week, NHS England's "Genomics Education Programme" seriously published guidance that said incest is okay, even if such inbreeding comes with double the risk of genetic defects (this is basic science, folks!).
Even dumber (somehow) is the fact that the NHS uses King Henry VIII as an example of cousin marriage.
Are the people in charge of the UK's healthcare system actually this dumb? (Intelligence is affected by inbreeding too!)
Divorcing your wife and marrying her cousin is not consanguineous marriage under any sense of the word. The word "consanguineous" literally means "of the same blood" in Latin. It's talking about a man marrying his own cousin.
Third graders should be smart enough to figure that out (may God have mercy on England).
Fortunately, the NHS was forced to apologize (for the moment) after swift public backlash.
Dr Patrick Nash, an expert on religious law and director of the Pharos Foundation social science research group in Oxford, called the guidance 'truly dismaying'.
'Cousin marriage is incest, plain and simple, and needs to be banned with the utmost urgency - there is no "balance" to be struck between this cultural lifestyle choice and the severe public health implications it incurs.
'This official article is deeply misleading and should be retracted with an apology so that the public is not misled by omission and half-truths.'
Critics say the NHS is trying to appease the large number of Muslim migrants who have flooded the UK in recent years. 1.6 million Pakistanis lived in Great Britain as of 2021, or 2.2% of the population. Pakistanis have an insanely high rate of incest - a whopping 61% of all marriages are consanguineous. This has followed Pakistanis to the UK - 55% of all married Pakistanis in Great Britain are wed to their cousins.
Across the Muslim world, 25%-50% of all marriages are between blood relatives, leading to serious genetic issues (which have serious implications for the burden on a nation's healthcare system). Western Europe and the U.S., by comparison, are at less than 1%.
Among Indians (now 2.9% of the UK's population), consanguineous marriage is lower (8%), but exceeds 25% among dedicated Hindu communities, particularly those from southern India.
The NHS responded to the criticism of its guidelines by claiming they are not the British government's official position (yet). The NHS says it just wanted to have a dialogue about incest as part of an important democratic discussion.
A spokesman for NHS England said: 'The article published on the website of the Genomics Education Programme is a summary of existing scientific research and the public policy debate. It is not expressing an NHS view.'
A few comments:
Since the UK seems to have forgotten both science and the biblical foundation of its entire legal system, I'll conclude with a Bible verse to kindly help the British authorities remember that the God who created reproduction and DNA gave helpful instructions about incest 3,500 years ago:
'No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.' - Leviticus 18:6
With a straight face..............
I think it is the Egyptian King Tut who shows the apparent and disgusting results of inbreeding
Import the 3rd world
Become the 3rd world
You can also marry family goats.
I recommend they marry their sisters.
A large part of the reason why Pakistan and Somalia are the worst countries in the world.
“British health service says marrying your first cousin has many benefits and “economic advantages””
as if the Brits need yet ANOTHER factor to further degrade their society ...
“British health service says marrying your first cousin has many benefits and “economic advantages””
as if the Brits need yet ANOTHER factor to further degrade their society ...
Sounds like something Nancy Pelosi ,is she advising the UK government ,LOL
It looks that way.
My great great grandparents were first cousins...had four apparently normal children...but maybe that is why my sister is schizo?
It worked for William and Mary and Queen Victoria. It’s also perfectly legal in New York, New Jersey and a handful of other states.
No....not The Bee ! LOL...
Those poor people at The Bee cannot compete with reality!.................
The talk I mentioned earlier had to do with ordinary Egyptians at a later period (either Ptolemaic or Roman, don't recall)--I don't know how soon the common people began to imitate the pharaohs in this regard.
Athens allowed half-sibling marriages. The Roman emperor Claudius married his niece and Romans at the time professed to be shocked.
My grandfather’s brother married a first cousin once removed. They had 5 children of which one died at birth but one lived to 96. Only one of the surviving 4 married and she had no children of her own (adopted her husband’s son by his former wife).
The end result is Charles II of Spain:
Charles’ reign has traditionally been viewed as one of decline and decay, a foreign ambassador commenting in 1691 “it is incomprehensible how this monarchy survives”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain#Legacy
Meanwhile the Austrian Habsburgs continued until 1918, and the son of the last Habsburg ruler, Otto von Habsburg, was a well-respected European statesman.
No guesses about whom influenced this decision. Pakistani Muslims. I’m sure any dissenters were silent, worried about the “racist” label.
It’s amazing how such a minority can have such power over the majority, even when such obvious idiocy is being pushed.
Its great if you are trying to turn out a generation with IQ’s of 80. 😉
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