First Cousins Get Married In Maryland

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Genesis315:
Who you have a strong sexual attraction to is purely hormonal. Who you love is definitely a choice and it’s spiritual, not hormonal.
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Female cousin: I am so glad the family chose to have a family reunion in the fall.
Male cousin: Yes lovey, this is a very romantic time of year.
Female cousin: Do you think Uncle Joe caught us kissing over there in the bushes?
Male cousin: No, but I think Grandma did. She just winked.
Female cousin: I am so glad she will having her cateract surgery this week. Shall we go back inside? All of the family will be wondering where we are.
Male cousin: hmmm, hold on there, I need just one more hug and sweet kiss from you.
 
For years comedians have sterotyped the south as being a haven of interfamily breeding and although the jokes are often funny it sometimes rankles a bit. I am glad that another state will now get made fun of. Thanks Maryland.😃
 
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wabrams:
I lived in Baltimore for a while after college, so I know what you mean! 😃
I used to make up stories for my daughters (each girl had to have her own special stories.) Now I make them up for my granddaughter. Once my wife wanted to know why there were no stories about her side of the family. This is the story:

You know Grandma Morton’s maiden name was Doolen. She came from Maryland, which is where all the Doolens come from. There was a Doolen among the first settlers to come to Maryland, Anna Doolen.

When people first come into a country, they have to work very hard, because if they need anything they have to make it themselves or grow it. There are no stores. They have to work so hard that sometimes they just have to do the best they can and then hurry on to do something else.

The first thing the people who came to Maryland had to do was clear land for their crops – if they didn’t do that, they’d starve. And Anna Doolen came to see.

“Yew call those fields? Look at all those stumps!”

The men said, “That’s the best we can do for now, Anna. Later on, we’ll get the stumps out.”

“Later! That’s what you ALWAYS say. But later never comes, does it? And I’ll come back in 20 years and those fields will still be full of stumps.”

The next thing was to build their houses. Anna came to see the new houses.

“Yew call those houses? They’re just old log cabins with bark roofs!!”

The men said, “That’s the best we can do for now, Anna. Later on, we’ll build better houses.”

“Later! That’s what you ALWAYS say. But later never comes, does it? And I’ll come back in 20 years and they’ll still be old log cabins with bark roofs!!”

Then they went to work to build their capital city – you can’t have a colony without a capital city. First, they laid out the streets and Anna came to see.

Yew call those streets? They’re just cow paths!!"

The men said, “That’s the best we can do for now, Anna. Later on, we’ll pave the streets.”

“Later! That’s what you ALWAYS say. But later never comes, does it? And I’ll come back in 20 years and they’ll still be cow paths!!”

Then they build the buildings for the city. Anna came to see.

Yew call those buildings? It’s so dark in there I can’t see my hand!!"

The men said, “That’s the best we can do for now, Anna. Later on, we’ll invent electricity.”

“Later! That’s what you ALWAYS say. But later never comes, does it? And I’ll come back in 20 years and those buildings will still be lit with old candles!!”

They kept working, and finally they were finished. All they had left to do was put up the flag pole. Anna came to watch.

Yew call this a capital city? It doesn’t even have a name!!"

The men said, “We’ve been working too hard to give it a name. We’ll think up a name later.”

“Later! That’s what you ALWAYS say. But later never comes, does it? And I’ll come back in 20 years and this city still won’t have a name!!”

Well, those men had had ENOUGH!! They said, “Anna, if you don’t shut up, we’re going to take this pole and shove it . . .”

But Anna didn’t shut up.

That’s why the capital of Maryland is called "Annapolis."http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon12.gif
 
vern humphrey:
All they had left to do was put up the flag pole. Anna came to watch.

Yew call this a capital city? It doesn’t even have a name!!"

The men said, “We’ve been working too hard to give it a name. We’ll think up a name later.”

“Later! That’s what you ALWAYS say. But later never comes, does it? And I’ll come back in 20 years and this city still won’t have a name!!”

Well, those men had had ENOUGH!! They said, “Anna, if you don’t shut up, we’re going to take this pole and shove it . . .”

But Anna didn’t shut up.

That’s why the capital of Maryland is called "Annapolis."http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon12.gif
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:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: SIck but funny.
 
vern humphrey:
Marry like that often enough, and in a few generations you’ll have some interesting-looking children.http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon12.gif
Actually, just being closely related doesn’t guarantee mutant offspring down the line. Just look at many of the royal houses of Europe. Other than a problem with hemophilia and Prince Charles’ ears, there aren’t any mutations that seem too out of the ordinary.

It all depends on genetic make up. If your family has a recessive gene for some malformation, like an extra ear, then producing offspring with someone closely related to you increases the chances of that recessive gene producing the trait. Even if your offspring don’t have the trait, you’re still limiting the gene pool and increasing the chances, with each generation that marries within their family, that the trait will surface.

On the other hand, if your gene pool contains no recessive genes for any birth defects or malformities, then marrying your cousin would actually produce some pretty healthy offspring. People make fun of Appalachian people as being in-bred morons. It’s true they are dirt-poor, malnourished, and extremely uneducated. But that’s economics, not genetics. And it is true that they are in-bred, which is due mainly to their isolation in the mountains throughout the 19th and much of the 20th centuries. While they may not be the most attractive lot of people in the world, if you take a look at old photographs of original settlers, you’d see they weren’t any prettier. So their lack of beauty, while due to genetics, is not due to in breeding. Something else you’ll find is a lack of congenital defects and disorders. They’re a pretty hardy lot.

I guess my whole point is that assuming close family members who marry will produce mutant offspring is like assuming that Catholics worship Mary. It just ain’t true.
 
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Maurelian:
Actually, just being closely related doesn’t guarantee mutant offspring down the line. Just look at many of the royal houses of Europe. Other than a problem with hemophilia and Prince Charles’ ears, there aren’t any mutations that seem too out of the ordinary. .
Why is Prince Charles so often photographed wearing kilts? So people will look at his knobby knees and not his jug-handle ears.http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon10.gif
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Maurelian:
It all depends on genetic make up. If your family has a recessive gene for some malformation, like an extra ear, then producing offspring with someone closely related to you increases the chances of that recessive gene producing the trait…
That would be the Crockett family. Davey, you know, had a left ear, a right ear and a wild front ear.
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Maurelian:
Even if your offspring don’t have the trait, you’re still limiting the gene pool and increasing the chances, with each generation that marries within their family, that the trait will surface.

On the other hand, if your gene pool contains no recessive genes for any birth defects or malformities, then marrying your cousin would actually produce some pretty healthy offspring. People make fun of Appalachian people as being in-bred morons. It’s true they are dirt-poor, malnourished, and extremely uneducated. But that’s economics, not genetics. And it is true that they are in-bred, which is due mainly to their isolation in the mountains throughout the 19th and much of the 20th centuries. While they may not be the most attractive lot of people in the world, if you take a look at old photographs of original settlers, you’d see they weren’t any prettier. So their lack of beauty, while due to genetics, is not due to in breeding. Something else you’ll find is a lack of congenital defects and disorders. They’re a pretty hardy lot…
The weak died out.
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Maurelian:
I guess my whole point is that assuming close family members who marry will produce mutant offspring is like assuming that Catholics worship Mary. It just ain’t true.
I am reminded of a movie, about a cajun who refers to his nephew, "Why do we have so many eediot? Perhaps eet is zee incest, non?

Actually, I have a horse with a brother-sister cross in his lineage. Aside from being a major trouble-maker, he’s fine.
 
Christ - Face, I think you are new and I think you are playing double guns. I don’t buy into you. To bad you are using a name like Christ - Face. I wish you would just move along. Will you reincarnate yourself?
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Christ-Face:
This thread reminds me of my own cousin. 😉
 
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Lurch104:
I have much less of a problem with 1st cousins marrying than with homosexual “marriage”.
yes, i have much less of a problem with manslaughter than i have with murder in the first degree.
 
While you guys are joking and squabbling, I would like to interject something a bit more serious. There is a community about 70 miles from here that is totally closed to outsiders. There are only a handful of surnames in the entire village and they have been inbreeding for something like twelve generations. While serving on a committee at church, I met three of them (they’re all Catholic). One was more or less “normal”, one was born with one hand, and the third was born with a deformed leg. Two of them had children with Downs Syndrome. My conversations with them led me to do a little more research, and I found that the rate of birth defects among these people was many, many times higher than for the state as a whole. While they take care of their own and shun most governmental assistance, the care of those with various disabilities is an almost full time job for the women of that community.

While one coupling of close kin may not immediately produce any noticable defects, the continuation of that practice within a small population will lead to a situation as described above. Even though they brought it on themselves, my heart still goes out to those who have birth defects and to those who must care for them.
 
The kissing cousin topic has returned…

Associate director of the medical genetics clinic at the University of Washington, said that laws prohibiting cousins from marrying are “a form of genetic discrimination.” :rolleyes:

Are ‘kissing cousins’ OK to marry? msnbc.msn.com/id/7392714/
 
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otm:
What’s the big deal? Are you all so young you don’t remember Jerry Lee Lewis marrying his first cousin?

I mean, Hush puppies and Moon Pie, chile, it’s no big deal!
OK, I have to set the record straight. Jerry Lee Lewis and his wife were not first cousins. They were much more distantly related than that (something like 3rd cousins with a couple of degrees removal). The scandal was that she was soooo young. I think she was 13 while he was a grown man pushing 30.
 
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Binney:
The kissing cousin topic has returned…

Associate director of the medical genetics clinic at the University of Washington, said that laws prohibiting cousins from marrying are “a form of genetic discrimination.” :rolleyes:

Are ‘kissing cousins’ OK to marry? msnbc.msn.com/id/7392714/
I always thought kissing cousins were cousins of cousins. In other words my children are kissing cousins with the children of my sister-in-law’s (brother’s wife) sister’s children. I wish I could draw a family tree to make it clearer, but the main point is that kissing cousins are not blood relations.

Of course I grew up in South Louisiana, and it’s amazing how many relatives I have, kissing and blood.
 
Consider this – a spouse has certain rights that no one else has. For example, if you have anything left in your IRA, your spouse can roll it over into hers (or his.) Your spouse can draw your Social Security. A spouse pays no inheritence tax.

So – Marry your grandchild! She (or he) will draw your Social Security and inherit without taxes.
 
vern humphrey:
Consider this – a spouse has certain rights that no one else has. For example, if you have anything left in your IRA, your spouse can roll it over into hers (or his.) Your spouse can draw your Social Security. A spouse pays no inheritence tax.

So – Marry your grandchild! She (or he) will draw your Social Security and inherit without taxes.
Hmmmm–a cogent argument to support civil unions. I wonder if we should join forces with the homosexuals to make this happen.
 
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