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Cousins dating.......

Hi all,
I'm 25,& I know right from wrong.
My brother, 24 is dating our 2nd cousin,19/20(?)!
Myself, and my Entire Family is completely disgusted by his 'problem', and cannot understand his 'choice of actions', or even 'how' are they making this feel 'right' in their minds?
Is this not grosso & n.a.s.t.y?
Do you think it's normal?
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Comments (8)
Its fine you should all have a big family orgy with grandma and grandpa and watch porn and give each other head and stuff and do other kinky things.
wtf is ur problem smithe. Its avtually illegal in the US, so if u wana scare them, threaten with the cops. But if they are in love, let them be, the goverment will find out
Really Its illegal? I saw a whole bunch of crap about people committing incest of Jerry Springer. Wouldn't they have all been arrested? (Not to quesion you, because illegal shit happens all the time on live TV, especially Jerry Springer, and the feds don't seem to do shit about it). I don't think it should be illegal because its more or a moral/social/religious thing, but I still think its pretty fucked up.
some states its legal to marry your 1st cousin.
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."

I don't think it's anyone's business but theirs. We are all related to one another less than 50th cousins away. In fact, the Catholic Dictionary finds that Christ's parents-- Joseph & Mary-- were first cousins. Protestants come to the same conclusion.
1 out of 1000 cousin marriages in the US and 4 out of 1000 in Japan. Canada and Mexico allow cousin marriages. 26 states allow cousin marriages.

Society who judge are just unlearned individuals who need to learn more about our history.
To speak of moral/religious views. You might need to open the Bible and read what God's word says before you condemn cousin relationships. Here's a few facts:

Biblical Cousin Marriages
Each of the following individuals in scripture were in the lineage of Mary, Christ's mother, or Joseph, his "earthly" father, who were chosen by God to raise His son. Most, if not all, occurred (chronologically) after the time in which Levitican law was written.
Zelophehad's daughters did as the LORD commanded Moses. Zelophehad's daughters, Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah, married their cousins on their father's side.
(Numbers 36: 1-11)
Milcah, one of Zelophehad's daughters, was married to her cousin Nahor. They had a grand daughter named Rebekkah. In Genesis 24:48-51, the story unfolds of how, against all odds, God's direction for her to marry her cousin's son Isaac (first cousin once removed) is made crystal clear.
Isaac and Rebekkah had two son's. Jacob was the son whom was blessed to fulfill God's prophecy that the descendant's of Abraham (Jacob's grandfather, Isaac's father) would become a great nation. Isaac instructed Jacob to marry a daughter of Rebekkah's brother. Although he immediately fell in love and became engaged to his cousin Rachel, his uncle tricked him into first marrying Rachel's sister Leah. Although God blessed Jacob greatly, Jacob suffered much grief and heartache for having married both sisters. Jacob's descendants became what is now known as the twelve tribes of Israel. (Genesis chapters 19 and 29)
In I Chronicles 23:22, Eleazar's daughters married their first cousins. Very little detail is given of this event.
a bit ew-ish. but still, 2nd cousins, not cousins. my cousin used to have a crush on me... well, maybe he still does. i dunno. but that's beside the point. i doubt they'll actually DO anything, so no one should care. k?
Love can sprout from the strangest of places!

What about those ppl who fall in love with the ppl who capture them!