[Brett66]

This should make Klinton happy, it expands his options.

[anniegetyourgun]

Great news for folks from WV?

AGYG <----ducking!

[marktuoni]

The Levine Book tells us we can have sex with kids, this research tells us we can have sex with our cousins....Next Beastiality will be promoted as an acceptable diversion....God, help us!

[Wurlitzer]

Gee, I always thought that is where dumbocraps and politicians came from.

[Biblebelter]

This is great news for inbreeding. It enlarges the dating pool by putting the union back in family reunion.

[Ward Smythe]

Marriage between first cousins, long a major legal, social and religious taboo, is far less likely to produce abnormal children than is commonly believed, a study by leading genetics researchers says.

I'm assuming that the European Royal Families were not included in this study...

[Clemenza]

If you see a family reunion as an opportunity to meet your future spouse, you might be from Arkansas!

[Sabertooth]

"Stigma still attaches to these unions," says Robin Bennett, a genetics counselor at the University of Washington and the study's lead author.

"But there's no good social or biological reason that should be. There's a lot of misinformation out there that is really holding back some cousins who want to try to have children," Bennett says.

Ah, another hubrisian scientist, caught in blithering overreach.

Who'd have thunk it?

[Rockitz]

Now for something completely different- A man with three buttocks.

John Cleese, Monty Python

[dighton]

Case in Point

[Tall_Texan]

Two thoughts:

1. Just what we need - more potential guests for The Jerry Springer Show.

2. Do we really want to emulate the marrying practices of Arab lands? I mean, they don't seem to be producing the brightest minds as recent events have demonstrated.

[monkey]

"But there's no good social or biological reason that should be.

What percentage of a person's ancestors, going back 100,000 years (when people lived in kin groups), mated with their cousins, siblings, or other relatives? Perhaps nonrelative mating, like nuclear families, is a relatively recent social invention. Cousin marriage has the added binding agent of blood relation.

[Always Right]

"I see nothing wrong with inbreeding!"

[weikel]

Abe: It all began when Jebediah Springfield first came to these lands with his partner, Shelbyville Manhattan. [flash to pilgrims approaching a hilltop]
Jebediah: People, our search is over! On this site we shall build a new town where we can worship freely, govern justly, and grow vast fields of hemp for making rope and blankets.
Shelb.: Yes, _and_ marry our cousins.
Jebediah: I was -- what are you talking about, Shelbyville? Why would we want to marry our cousins?
Shelb.: Because they're so attractive. I, I thought that was the whole point of this journey.
Jebediah: Absolutely not!
Shelb.: I tell you, I won't live in a town that robs men of the right to marry their cousins.
Jebediah: Well, then, we'll form our own town. Who will come and live a life devoted to chastity, abstinence, and a flavorless mush I call rootmarm?
[the people divide between Jebediah and Shelbyville]
Abe: The town of Springfield was born on that day, and to mark that sweet moment, our people planted this lemon tree (lemons being the sweetest fruit available at the time).