Marriage Equality: Judge Legalizes Illegal Incestuous Marriage

Frontpage Magazine ^ | November 1, 2014 | Daniel Greenfield

[2ndDivisionVet]

Conservatives warned that imposing gay marriage on the country would lead to the legalization of polygamy, incest and bestiality. Liberals pretended that only crazy people would believe that.

Because somehow redefining marriage to mean “equality” for any arrangement in which people claim to be love would in no way lead to those things.

The law predictably disagrees.

A Federal judge struck down a polygamy ban last year based on the promotion of gay marriage. This latest decision on incest is less explosive, but demonstrates the same principles.

Nearly a century after the same court annulled a marriage between an uncle and his half-niece, New York’s top court said on Tuesday that a woman’s union with her half-uncle was lawful.

U.S. immigration officials in 2007 said Vietnamese citizen Huyen Nguyen’s marriage in 2000 to her mother’s half-brother, U.S. citizen Vu Truong, was void and sought to deport her. A federal appeals court asked the New York Court of Appeals to decide whether such marriages were lawful...

[Celtic Conservative]

If you stopped first cousins in Saudi Arabia from marrying you'd bring the entire country to a screeching halt

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

Just paving the way to Sharia Law.

Mooslimbs are notoriously inbred because they don't want to share the family inheritance with outsiders.

[bigbob]

He said the relationship was no closer than cousins which is permitted. Hell in some states it’s required.

[Politicalkiddo]

Ew. Ew. Ew.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

New York is notorious for these types of weddings. There was a governor who married his cousin and then later became president—Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.

[morphing libertarian]

Marrying the daughter of a fifth cousin is incest?

[ChildOfThe60s]

I had an uncle that married his cousin.

But she was his cousin by marriage. No blood relation.

[Lurking Libertarian]

It was a half-uncle, which, as the court noted, meant they were genetically no closer than first cousins.

[mountainbunny]

It looks like first cousins getting married is already legal in just over half of the states (26). Is this (uncle-niece) genetically different?

http://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/state-laws-regarding-marriages-between-first-cousi.aspx

The list of famous people (including presidents) who married their cousins is really surprising:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coupled_cousins

[familyop]

Any news about the outrageous immorality of adultery lately?

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

That ain’t nuttin’! Just listen to Ray Stevens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw

[bigbob]

Very interesting list

[rawcatslyentist]

Next up animals, and inanimate objects!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Required? Rednecks aren’t THAT bad, mate.

[HiTech RedNeck]

That seems to have fallen to the concern of church ladies, oh we are way too ADVANCED to care about such old fashioned twaddle.

Sarc, if you can’t tell it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

After all, you can’t put a condom on your heart.

[haroldeveryman]

“There was a governor who married his cousin and then later became president...”

What was his campaign slogan, “incest is best”?

[fella]

And smart and savy New Yorkers make fun of Arkansasens over this. Isn’t the scientific consensus in on incest?

[informavoracious]

Considering the woman was to be deported, this could be a marriage of convenience.