Quote (jrwhite1987 @ Wed, Jun 18 2008, 06:30pm)

I can understand the marriage between cousins being illegal...

Quote (tric-isHUGE @ Wed, Jun 18 2008, 06:29pm)

And polygamy and marriage between cousins affects you how?

Stop with the slippery slope arguments. Deal with issues as they are, If we're talking about gay marriage, talk about gay marriage. Since no one is talking about polygamy, it is irrelevant.

Quote (tric-isHUGE @ Wed, Jun 18 2008, 10:37am)

Raises risk of birth defects from 3-4% to 4-7%  if you marry your cousin. 

http://www.slate.com/id/2064227/

Quote (jrwhite1987 @ Wed, Jun 18 2008, 06:38pm)

That's good enough for me for it to be illegal.

Quote (tric-isHUGE @ Wed, Jun 18 2008, 10:41am)

Like 20% of the world is married to a cousin...  and besides that 4% overlaps from 2 cousins procreating and 2 non cousins procreating.

There is no issue here.

Quote (jrwhite1987 @ Wed, Jun 18 2008, 06:57pm)

If there is an increased risk, then it should be illegal.  It should also be illegal for women to do drugs and alcohol while they are pregnant (I'm not sure if that's legal or not).

Quote (tric-isHUGE @ Wed, Jun 18 2008, 11:17am)

Being out in the sun increases you chance to get skin cancer. should it be illegal to go outside without sun tan lotion?

This is preposterous, to say certain people cannot do something because you are frightened of  birth defects.  Grow up.

Quote (jrwhite1987 @ Wed, Jun 18 2008, 02:30pm)

I can understand the marriage between cousins being illegal...

Quote (jrwhite1987 @ Wed, Jun 18 2008, 01:35pm)

I really don't understand why its preposterous to want to prevent birth defects. The difference between going outside in the sun is that that action doesn't affect other people.