Guess you don’t need a blood test anymore?
Haven't needed a blood test in Oklahoma for several years now.
You do not in Ohio.
This shouldn’t impact many restrictions that states put on marriages. Whether it’s blood tests, prohibiting sibling or first cousin marriage or the like.
It simply transfers the validation (and paperwork) requirement to the officiant, who has to personally certify that such checks were conducted and the marriage doesn’t violate state law.
I like that a lot. Let the state divest itself of that requirement, risk and liability, and make the officiants assume them. From both a civil and criminal perspective.