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Marriage of cousins a long-held taboo
The Washington Times, Culture section ^
| April 16, 2002
| Richard Ostling
Posted on 04/16/2002 3:40:30 PM PDT by FormerLib
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:38:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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This story had come up before but this article gave a very interesting history of the question, including the differing Biblical aspects.
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posted on
04/16/2002 3:40:30 PM PDT
by
FormerLib
To: FormerLib
well, i'm glad we settled that nagging question.
i had been trying to figure that out all day.
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posted on
04/16/2002 3:53:31 PM PDT
by
scott91
To: FormerLib
They're missing the point here. One uncommon marriage between cousins might not be a statistically genetic problem, but what if two cousins marry whose grandparents were cousins? You can begin to water down the gene pool very quickly if you have several generations of cousins marrying cousins. I'd like to see a statistical analysis of that.
To: ElkGroveDan
No need for a statistical analysis. Just look at the British royal family.
I'd say it was a bad idea.
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posted on
04/16/2002 4:06:43 PM PDT
by
Dinsdale
To: ElkGroveDan
Sort of like what happened in the Clinton Klan?
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posted on
04/16/2002 4:07:19 PM PDT
by
tet68
To: FormerLib
Now, let's go to the Bourbons and their kin. They maintained the required 4 degrees of consanguinity prohibition, but NOT BEYOND 4!
The result was that in any one generation there were but a few hundred of them, all closely related. They kept this up for more than half a millenium. Even today one is King of Spain. Still within the family, but not named Bourbon, we find the Princess Bouval-Craon who runs Sotheby's Paris. I have no idea who she married, but any of the identifiable members of this narrow group probably continue to chose spouses from among the others.
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posted on
04/16/2002 4:07:53 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: ElkGroveDan
I'd like to see a statistical analysis of that.Not a problem! Head for the Appalachians and start counting! ;-)
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posted on
04/16/2002 4:16:53 PM PDT
by
FormerLib
To: FormerLib
Marriage of cousins...How disgusting!
Unless she's really,really cute.
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posted on
04/16/2002 4:43:00 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
To: muawiyah
When the upper classes mate with each other's cousins--be they Bourbons, Hapsburgs, Cabots or Lees, nobody thinks ill of it.
When the poor white trash in the Appalachians do it, it's suddenly a crime against nature.
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posted on
04/16/2002 4:50:51 PM PDT
by
Loyalist
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To: Loyalist
When the poor white trash in the Appalachians do it, it's suddenly a crime against nature.No it's not, it's called, "Alabama".
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posted on
04/16/2002 4:56:35 PM PDT
by
tet68
To: FormerLib
Howdy cousin!
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posted on
04/16/2002 4:56:50 PM PDT
by
aomagrat
To: AlexanderTheGreat
You're also missing an important point. You shouldn't prohibit people from marrying just because there's some percentage (however big or small) of congenital birth defects. We don't prohibit people with congenital diseases from marrying and having kids. True, but to denigrate ages old rules of civilized society as "taboo" because some statistician did a superficial analysis of first generation risks is also wrong.
One of the reasons we as humans have survived to crawl out of the caves and rule the world is because until recently we have stuck to the rules of society (religious or otherwise) that result in the most successful civilizations. Time and time again, conservative and biblical rules that govern people who lived together as a society have proven to be the most effective path to stability, peace, harmony, and growth.
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To: tet68
Sort of like what happened in the Clinton Klan? That alone makes a great argument against it!
To: tet68
Hey Bubba......what in the hell did he just say about Bama'?
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posted on
04/16/2002 5:23:20 PM PDT
by
Icthus
To: FormerLib
Ironically, Darwin married his first cousin, as did his sister.
To: AlexanderTheGreat
That's interesting...of course back in the day, we were more likely to live within a mile of most of our relatives--cousins, etc.
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To: FormerLib
This is absolutely forbidden by the bible, and so is teen sex, and so are Priests that marry women, and so is naked anything, and so is NOT supporting Alan Keys, and all of you who doubt it will surely go straight to He!!, and us righteous will gloat at your demise.
Dogs and cats sleeping together, the end of the world as we know it!!!!
/sarcasm
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