Posted on 04/05/2005 11:43:17 AM PDT by soundandvision
"...quite common in the Arab world."
Hah, only problem is, there're ALOT of HALF-siblings and HALF-cousins there thanks to multiple wives and all. That dilutes the gene pool a bit.
As barriers against homosexual marriage are falling, there would appear no compelling reason for governments to prohibit incest, polygamy, and so forth. We are probably only two Supreme Court positions away from the abolition of all barriers to state sanctioned unions of any variety. In the "bluest" states, it will likely happen before the Supreme Court gets around to requiring that all unions be treated equally: cousin to cousin, father to daughter, adult to minor, pervert to pervert, etc.
As I've heard Newt Gingrich say on many occasions (attributing this quote to someone else)... 'what's unique about America with respect to the rest of the world is that we're the one's that left and came here'.
I thinkit said the probabability of genetic disorders from cousins is only slightly higher than the general population, not brother and sister. LOL
Many of our "rights" that we are so concerned about were actually "privileges" that our ancestors had to the exclusion of the minor nobles and commoners.
I think this difference in our ancestry makes many Europeans instinctively dislike us.
Interesting. There are some things I never think about and this is one of them. I didn't realize it was an issue. Oh well.
Have you ever done your own family?
As proof of how insane this is leading, just 2 or 3 years ago a moron in Maine tried to get a marriage license to marry his dog.
So the majority of the states (27 out of 50) allows first cousins to marry. Who knew. I think this was once more common than it is now.
I am from the south (Memphis) but, no. :) Just not the best speed reader when posting on FR.
"We wanted the rights like anybody had the rights."
Shades of a certain other marriage movement?
Remember, 1 Huguenaut arriving in 1660 in New York could end up with more descendants in the USA by 1840 than 50 boatloads of starving Irishmen. This was due to the American practice of having 10, 15 or even 20 children!
If I remember correctly, the odds of any two people having a baby with a genetic problem are around 5%, and those "problems" are far more likely to be minor (harelip, vision issues, premature baldness, etc). When two cousins marry, that number only increases to something like 7%. When a brother and sister have children, it jumps to about 25% (yes, 75% of children born from brother/sister incest are perfectly normal). If a parent has a child with one of their own children, the numbers go even higher.
Where you run into the real problems are the situations where you have generation after generation inbreeding, like you see in small, remote towns and in monarchies. Those compound the birth defects and drive the numbers way up.
Ugh, for some reason that reminded me of NAMBLA.
As proof of how insane this is leading, just 2 or 3 years ago a moron in Maine tried to get a marriage license to marry his dog.
Yes and slavery was once legal too..but..come on!
Don't know. Looks like you need to ask the folk in Maryland.
yes, but wouldn't it be true that if the cousins both have superior genes, they would really have nothing to worry about? just wondering...
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