Posted on 07/08/2018 9:07:42 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Edvard Grieg, the Norwegian composer married his first cousin. There only child died an infant from “meningitis.”
This from a member of a race that coined the term “MF?”
Wow, could knock me over with a feather.
Desperation.
It’s tangible.
took a minute to figure out ‘cmoomity!’
None of these people can complain, since, they did not complain when jOkeass was in office.
Albert Einstein married his first cousin.
I know I’m a teen, but are liberals getting crazier?? This is really a stretch...
around here a portion of the population has ceased to include the initial “co” as in, “comoomity”, saying instead something that comes out like, “samoomity”. Guess it’s a local dialect change rather than a widespread one.
They would either say that Trump has grown, or they would say the gay was a traitor to the gay cause for working for Trump.
No state bans the marriage of second cousins. Eleven states allow the marriage of first cousins. A few allow the marriage of first cousins if the cousins are past the age of having children, or if one is sterile. The rest of the stares ban marriage of first cousins, and a few consider it a criminal offense.
Marriage of first cousins was not unknown in earlier centuries. In my family tree, I have people who are related to me more than one way. I have distant aunts or uncles who married a first cousin, also a distant cousin to me, so those spouses are my cousins by blood, but my uncles or aunts by marriage.
Re: this accusation against Giuliani — I love it when the left has to resort to pulling things out their @ss.
Mira was JLL’s second (or maybe third) cousin.
That’s why you celebrate the LGBTQ123 movement right?
Hysterical, the hypocrisy!
I drove for Trailways for a couple of years. Carried a lot of Amish. There was an inordinate number of offspring that had definite abnormalities from breeding too close. One gentleman told me that these were matchmaking visits. Evidently they were trying to solve the proble.
The Spanish Habsburgs had a lot of cases of marriages between close relatives, which produced Charles II, with whom the line ended.
Didn’t liberal hero FDR marry a cousin?
There is plenty of experience that shows that it’s a bad idea. My father told me about some people he knew, first cousins who married, and all of their children had birth defects. Of course, things can happen even with couples who are not even distantly related. My wife’s cousin, of Serbian and Irish ancestry, married a Puerto Rican. They had one healthy daughter. The next daughter was born with a rare neuro-muscular disorder, and lived only four months. They wanted another child, and their son was born with the same disorder. He is doing better, but if he survives he will have a severe and lifelong disability. The couple finally had genetic testing and found that they both have a genetic tendancy for that disorder.
My grandfather's brother married a woman who was his first cousin once removed. They had 5 children, one of whom died at birth, but only one of the 4 surviving children ever married. That one married a widower and adopted his young son from his first marriage but had no children of her own. I'm not aware of any birth defects. The one who died at birth was a twin.
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