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British health service says marrying your first cousin has many benefits and "economic advantages"
Not The Bee ^ | September 29, 2025 | Joel Abbott

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


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: islam; islamic; muslim; muslims

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To: Seruzawa

With a straight face..............


41 posted on 09/29/2025 6:33:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Verginius Rufus

I think it is the Egyptian King Tut who shows the apparent and disgusting results of inbreeding


42 posted on 09/29/2025 6:33:55 AM PDT by madison10 (There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of ihilosophy.)
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To: Red Badger

Import the 3rd world

Become the 3rd world


43 posted on 09/29/2025 6:37:54 AM PDT by nitzy (I don’t trust good looking country singers or fat doctors.)
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To: Red Badger

You can also marry family goats.


44 posted on 09/29/2025 6:39:29 AM PDT by Ronald77 ( )
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To: Red Badger

I recommend they marry their sisters.


45 posted on 09/29/2025 6:39:46 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: Red Badger

A large part of the reason why Pakistan and Somalia are the worst countries in the world.


46 posted on 09/29/2025 6:40:50 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Red Badger

“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 ...


47 posted on 09/29/2025 6:44:28 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Red Badger

“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 ...


48 posted on 09/29/2025 6:44:34 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: catnipman

Sounds like something Nancy Pelosi ,is she advising the UK government ,LOL


49 posted on 09/29/2025 6:52:28 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Uncle Miltie

It looks that way.


50 posted on 09/29/2025 6:56:54 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: AppyPappy

My great great grandparents were first cousins...had four apparently normal children...but maybe that is why my sister is schizo?


51 posted on 09/29/2025 7:00:15 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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To: Red Badger

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.


52 posted on 09/29/2025 7:01:53 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Red Badger

No....not The Bee ! LOL...


53 posted on 09/29/2025 7:05:31 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Churchillspirit

Those poor people at The Bee cannot compete with reality!.................


54 posted on 09/29/2025 7:06:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: madison10
King Tut looks normal enough in the likeness found in his tomb. It was his predecessor Akhenaton who is strangely deformed in appearance--and had his artists portray him like he looked rather than making him look better.

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.

55 posted on 09/29/2025 7:09:48 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: goodnesswins

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).


56 posted on 09/29/2025 7:12:59 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

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


57 posted on 09/29/2025 7:15:37 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy
Earlier the Habsburgs were famous for making good marriages that led to them inheriting additional territories. "Let others fight wars--you, happy Austria, marry." But the Spanish Habsburgs didn't keep to that tradition. The Bourbons took over Spain after Charles II's death and that was an improvement for Spain and her empire.

Meanwhile the Austrian Habsburgs continued until 1918, and the son of the last Habsburg ruler, Otto von Habsburg, was a well-respected European statesman.

58 posted on 09/29/2025 7:21:29 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Red Badger

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.


59 posted on 09/29/2025 7:25:09 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Red Badger

Its great if you are trying to turn out a generation with IQ’s of 80. 😉


60 posted on 09/29/2025 7:25:12 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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