[martin_fierro]

...or this is what happens.

[dirtboy]

No wonder family reunions in Maryland are so well attended by singles...

[cripplecreek]

So much for this being a southern thing.

Years ago I remember hearing the teaser for the local nightly news saying that they had a story about “A man, his daughter, and their 7 children. Film at 11”. I stayed up that night.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Codification that child-bearing is the primary purpose for the State “licensing” marriage.

This woould effectively kill any and all pleas to same-sex marriage.

[Red Badger]

WELL, THERE GOES THE DEMOCRAT BASE...............

[ravingnutter]

[kosciusko51]

Henry Heller, a Democratic delegate, or state representative, says he wants to bring Maryland "into the enlightened world of other states such as West Virginia and Arkansas" that already prohibit unions of first cousins.

I wonder if this was an ironic jab at WV and Arkansas, since using them as symbols of the "enlightened world" strikes me as being funny. (No offense intended to WV and Arkansas)

[American Quilter]

Henry Heller has waaaaaaaaay too much time on his hands.

[Jaxter]

[Vaquero]

I Tell you what....I did it...and look it me now!!!

[CholeraJoe]

There are 24 states that prohibit marriage between first-cousins.

Meaning that 26 permit it. No one has yet demonstrated an increase in stillbirths or genetic defects in first cousin consanguinity.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I find it ironic that this article, appearing just above a CNN hit piece that tries to claim that liberals have higher IQs than everyone else, points out that the Democrats are having to pass laws to stamp out inbreeding among their base.

[napscoordinator]

Kentucky and West Virginia should pass this law. I would not think that Maryland would have this problem. Ok throw in Alabama too. lol.

[Cicero]

"Hi! I'm Hank Heller, and I say no more inbreeding in Maryland."

[Semper Mark]

The old boy on the right divorced his new bride
after he found out that she was a virgin.

The reason he gave was - "Well, if she ain't good enough for her own family she shore as hell ain't good enough for mine!"

[chris_bdba]

The only people who really still do this are those who are Muslim and they will just ignore the law and take their daughters back to where they came form to marry.

[GeronL]

Wait a sec... this Democrat says it IS a governments job to say who can and cannot be married??

How does this person feel about gay “marriage” or an arranged marriage of a Muslim to a 9 year old??

[GOYAKLA]

Need help on correcting if this isn’t right.
Larry the Cable Guy said one of his relatives claimed to have married his third cousin.
I can’t remember Larry’s retort. HELP!

[CrazyIvan]

I drove a coach for Trailways for two years and carried a
lot of Amish families. They seemed to have an inordinate
number of offspring with abnormalities that we associate
with inbreeding. One family had three adult offspring that
were all handicapped. Not very scientific research, but I
always wondered if with the small communities that they have
if the gene pool wasn't too small. Most of them were very
nice people, it always hurt to see this.

[Tribune7]

I wonder how he feels about marriage between homosexuals?