Cousin Marriage Ban Could Soon Hit the US

I bet the Supreme Joke will have a thing or two to say about this. How is marrying a cousin different from a man marrying a man or a woman marrying a woman? What is the compelling state interest in marriage anyway? Shouldn't goobernment stay out of our bedrooms? Why does the goobernment have the authority to dictate who can start a family and who the members of that family can be? And if cousins really want to marry one can 'transition' to the same sex and then its a marriage with a Supreme Joke declared right to marry.

If Muslims want to marry their cousins then live they need to live in another country but here. else. They need to quit trying to make us bend to that "culture:

Had a 'close knit' family in our neighborhood way back when...Gramma called them Yellowhammers.

not every reasonable law belongs to be federal. the constitution gives some powers to the feds and i do not see where this fits.

Regardless of law, it is creating genetic problems....some of which are mental/emotional instability. It is a real problem in the middle east!

We already know they must have been inter-marrying, else, why live the way they do?

If you want to see why you shouldn't marry family, go look up the Hapsburg family. Their abnormalities became so pronounced that one of them could barely chew his food.

Uh, oh! Muslim IQ levels could rise.

Cousins marrying Cousins was far more common in the past than most want to admit. I have several family members to would show up for family reunions after the divorces. This isn't "just" and Islamic thing. It is, or used to be perfectly legal in Maryland. Well that and underage marriage.

No wonder they are so dang slow and stupid and treat their women like animals.

There are cousins and then there are cousins, How far down the line does this go. 2nd, 3rd, 4th. cousins>

Back in the 1940's, my Fathers Sister married her first Cousin. Their first child, a son was a delightful child but he wasn't all there. He spent his life doing menial jobs, the ones he could handle. His parents did him no favor by marrying near family members.

Re: #4 - From the Article: "The bill would alter benefit calculations under Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Medicare, Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. It would also affect federal employees’ life and health insurance benefits." The benefits mentioned above are being raped by fraud, primarily from third-worlders, illegals and the pseudo-naturalized - or naturalized in name only. U.S. citizens are intended to derive financial benefit on their federal taxes from filing as married on a joint return, for example Some states, like Minnesota, pervert federal benefits that pass through the states by allowing a brother and sister to self represent as legally married, allowing their foreign "cultural" practice to help them defraud our government, while the Minnesota "sister" perverts any notion of a "citizen representative" in our nation's Congress. Any such federal law prohibiting close family members from marrying is necessary due to the Blue state's early pathway to either take over or completely succeed from the U.S. as currently constituted. Concepts of Federalism, similar to "layer-cake government," inherent by design in our form of government (and largely effective for the past 245 years), cannot work when certain states in rebellion against our Constitution, act to provide sanctuary from federal immigration and criminal law enforcement, while defrauding all levels of government is condoned, if not encouraged by such states as "social economics." In addition, perhaps the bill would prevent the same-sex transition loophole mentioned by #1. There is no provision in the bill mentioned that would put government agents into our bedrooms. If the Supreme Court, the only court specifically authorized by our Constitution, keeps issuing rulings that nip racial gerrymandering in the bud, were there to be a ruling questioning the Constitutionality of such a law as proposed, then a Constitutional amendment may likely be passed and ratified by 38 states, resolving such questions.

All the cousin marriages is why they are so inbred and stupid....isn't the practice already frowned upon???

The Hapsburgs. Google them.

In Kentucky where I live, you cannot marry your first cousin.

I already married my cousin. Ninth, twice removed. Cousin marriage is OK in Sharia, because if a father could not marry his daughter off to another tribe/clan, then a cousin would have to do.