Couple stand by forbidden love

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[USMCWife6869]

Ewwwww. Just...ewwwwwwww.

[JamesP81]

LOL...and Rudy is not the first...we've had at least one President who married a cousin...albeit a 5th cousin

To be fair, at 5th cousin it hardly matters anymore. In fact, it hardly matters at third, except of course for the scandal associated with all of it. Still best avoided for that reason and just the general weirdness.

[JamesP81]

I do feel somewhat sorry for them. Even though they are genetically related, they weren't raised as brother and sister so those normal brother/sister feelings didn't develop.

I suppose there's a lot of truth to that. But still...it's weird. I'm an only child so I don't fully understand that whole brother / sister thing, but I don't have to to know it's just wrong. I just don't have a feel for the degree of wrongness associated with it.

Still I see your point, and I suppose I do feel bad for them on some level, but still....

[Antoninus]

Sickening ... but not surprising. Just another product of the breakdown of the family in the Western world. When society offers no rules and "freedom" comes to equal license, why is anyone surprised that some idiot will stand up and say, "Why can't I marry my sister, d@mn it!?"

[HEY4QDEMS]

"We would like society to recognise us, as any other normal couple"

Ewwwwww! I don't think so.

[Barney Gumble]

Good laugh. I'm not sure everyone got the indeundo.

Angelina Jolie has been suspect with her brother James Haven after they passionately kissed at the 2000 Oscars.

[Antoninus]

"This couple are not harming anyone. It is discrimination. And besides, we must not forget that every child is so valuable," said Dr Wilhelm.

"It is based on long traditions in Western societies, and the law is here for a good reason," said Prof Kunze.

Do these arguments sound familiar to anyone else?

[Beth528]

This is sick!!!I love my brothers but never enough to marry them...What are the people in this world doing..How long will it be before God says he has had enough?

[trimom]

Getting into one-eye country, there, aren't you?

[Darksheare]

Give her a mustache and that's a MAN baby!
*snerk*

[edsheppa]

Oh man, shades of that X-Files episode, yuck.

However, the article does raise an interesting point. The law is ostensibly motivated by concern for the potential progeny. But then, if one were consistent (I know, how likely is that?), shouldn't the same concern require general genetic testing of prospective parents and, where there are likely health concerns, reproduction be prohibited? And conversely, suppose close relatives were tested and the likelihood of defects was very low, how could such a union be opposed?

[Centurion2000]

Sterilize one of them and let them go.

[Armedanddangerous]

I have an older cousin who is recently divorced..shes related to me on my mothers side..

I have an uncle who was recently widowed..hes my dad's brother..

I always kind of thought my cousin and my uncle should hook up..

"This is my cousin, Aunt Darlene...and it would make my Uncle John my cousin too."

If nothing else, it would give us something to talk about at parties...

[Irontank]

But then, if one were consistent (I know, how likely is that?), shouldn't the same concern require general genetic testing of prospective parents and, where there are likely health concerns, reproduction be prohibited? And conversely, suppose close relatives were tested and the likelihood of defects was very low, how could such a union be opposed?

Or if brother or sister were past child bearing age? Or same sex siblings?

[from occupied ga]

Ick - that was really more than I wanted to know about them. Just let them move to West Virgina, and no one will care.

[stinkerpot65]

I think the ACLU will skip incest and go right on to pedophilia.

[Millee]

You are missed my dear.

[edsheppa]

Maybe I missed it but I didn't think that was the issue here. But certainly one couldn't oppose those based on the logic behind this law.

[twigs]

I remember Rick's comments well and thought they were a bellwether at the time. No wonder the world has sought to bring him down. Truth cannot be tolerated.

[Fighting Irish]