Bill to make marrying your first cousin illegal in Tennessee passes but not without a fight

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Bill to make marrying your first cousin illegal in Tennessee passes but not without a fight
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Or - mind blowing possibility - maybe you're bigoted against cousin marriage like the people you hate are bigoted against gay marriage.

The risk of genetic defects is extremely small. People don't like it because it's icky, which is not logically consistent. People used to think interracial marriage was icky.

Let people do what they want.

Yeah, I don't get it, personally. I'm really not a fan of governments telling people who they can fall in love with. You'd think there's more important issues to deal with.

I mean, I know people who's parents are cousins. It's literally a non-issue I couldn't give less of a fuck since they all seem happy. It's none of my, or the government's, business.

That said, it is weird, the lack of logic that goes on around this issue. It's simply wrong because it's wrong so it's therefore good for the government to make laws prohibiting it.

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