19 U.S. states allow residents restriction-free access to marrying a first cousin and starting a large, genetically limited family. Meanwhile, only five U.S. states currently allow citizens to marry someone of the same sex.
I know what you’re thinking: what’s wrong with cousin marriage? I had a crush on my second cousin Randy who I still think was pretty good-looking for a 12 year-old. I never confessed my love though. He lived 2,000 miles away, which may as well have been from here to the moon at that age, and it didn’t help that he was the family’s black sheep, drug-smoking and car-stealing by age 14.
But the real deal-breaker came in 6th grade Social Studies when I learned about the Spanish Monarchy. Apparently, Charles II sprung from 150 years of incestual propagation (his mother was his father’s niece). He wound up with an estimated I.Q. of 70, and reportedly he was so physically challenged that he couldn’t sit up, walk or eat without assistance.
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