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Charge: Father, Daughter Married (Is it Okay With Sandra Day O'Connor?)
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| 07/25/03
| KAREN TOLKKINEN
Posted on 07/25/2003 10:39:04 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Naspino
They are not just legally father and daughter. She is his biological daughter.
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posted on
07/25/2003 10:49:40 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
To: ErnBatavia
I think marrying your first cousin is legal everywhere. I could be wrong though.
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posted on
07/25/2003 10:50:13 AM PDT
by
dead
To: nickcarraway
"I told her she was stupid for marrying her own daddy," Shirley Crayne said. Only in Alabama could you read a line like that...
To: gcruse
"I told her she was stupid for marrying her own daddy," Shirley Crayne said. "I told him he was crazy and stupid. I told her I didn't ever want to hear from her again."
Now, just look what you've done, Gary. ROFL.
;-)
To: keithtoo
You betcha.
The ruling was regarding the rights of adults to do what they wish in privacy. Now, whether the marriage, father/daughter is not considered private, but in the public sphere is another thing entirely. However, if the justices rule on civil marriage for homosexuals, the whole adult incest wall could come down to tradition not law.
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posted on
07/25/2003 10:50:41 AM PDT
by
OpusatFR
(Using pretentious arcane words to buttress your argument means you don't have one)
To: ErnBatavia
FDR was married to his first cousin. Rudolph Giuliani first marriage was to his second cousin.
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posted on
07/25/2003 10:50:43 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
To: nickcarraway
I think the criminal defense atty. hired or assigned to defend this case would have the obligation to raise a constitutional defense to his client's prosecution. This is sad, but it is the strange fruit of the Lawrence v. Texas ruling.
(Yes, I meant to say "strange fruit." The choice of words was no accident.) :-)
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posted on
07/25/2003 10:52:04 AM PDT
by
bourbon
To: Flurry
I would have expected this in Walker or Lowndes counties, not Mobile.
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posted on
07/25/2003 10:52:06 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(White Devils for Sharpton. We're baaaaad. We're Nationwide)
To: ravingnutter
Ah -- I got hung up on the line "She didn't meet Charles Stewart until Alice was 3 or 4 years old, she said". I guess I didn't understand the point of why Charles Stewart was necessary to the article.
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posted on
07/25/2003 10:52:10 AM PDT
by
Naspino
To: dead
To: nickcarraway
Who are we to judge?
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posted on
07/25/2003 10:52:38 AM PDT
by
johnb838
(A sucking chest wound is natures way of telling you to slow down.)
To: JennysCool
if an Arkansas couple get a divorce, are they still brother and sister ?
To: wideawake
FDR was married to Theodore Roosevelt's cousin, not his own. There are a lot of Roosevelts (and Hoods, too, the other name this much married, much interbred family travels under).
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posted on
07/25/2003 10:54:11 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: wideawake
Not quite right. Question: How was ER related to FDR?
Answer: Eleanor and Franklin were fifth cousins once removed. They are both descended from Claes Martenszen van Rosenvelt who arrived in New Amsterdam (Manhattan) from Holland in the 1640s. His two grandsons Johannes and Jacobus began the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park branches of the Roosevelt family. ER descended from the Johannes branch and FDR descended of the Jacobus branch.
To: dead
I think marrying your first cousin is legal everywhere.You can marry a first cousin in Wisconsin, but there are restrictions.
765.03 Who shall not marry; divorced persons.
765.03(1)
(1) No marriage shall be contracted while either of the parties has a husband or wife living, nor between persons who are nearer of kin than 2nd cousins except that marriage may be contracted between first cousins where the female has attained the age of 55 years or where either party, at the time of application for a marriage license, submits an affidavit signed by a physician stating that either party is permanently sterile. Relationship under this section shall be computed by the rule of the civil law, whether the parties to the marriage are of the half or of the whole blood. A marriage may not be contracted if either party has such want of understanding as renders him or her incapable of assenting to marriage.
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posted on
07/25/2003 10:54:59 AM PDT
by
Catspaw
To: ErnBatavia
First cousins are borderline ok to marry. I'm not sure if all states ban them or not. Second cousins it's perfectly all right, I'm pretty sure. Still a bit distasteful. Inbreeding, even when it doesn't cause overt birth defects, results in weaker, less intelligent, less attractive children. Outbreeding results in the opposite.
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posted on
07/25/2003 10:55:38 AM PDT
by
johnb838
(A sucking chest wound is natures way of telling you to slow down.)
To: Naspino
I guess I didn't understand the point of why Charles Stewart was necessary to the articleMaybe she's seeing him on the side. Actually, if she married Charles, she could become her mother's mother, and, hence, her own grandmother.
To: Naspino
No she married here real father. The mother or the daughter put the step-father as the father on her birth certificate.
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posted on
07/25/2003 10:55:55 AM PDT
by
neb52
To: wideawake
I am compelled to rule that because abortion is legal; it provides a legal means of rectifying the objectionable side-effects of incest. In the second point the right to sexual privacy has been establish by this court on several occassions. Therefore it is the ruling of this court that the legislative law criminalizing incest is unconstitutional.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor -- 2004
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posted on
07/25/2003 10:56:21 AM PDT
by
Naspino
To: nickcarraway
They should form a club with Woody and Soon-yi.
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posted on
07/25/2003 10:56:44 AM PDT
by
ellery
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