@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agoBill to make marrying your first cousin illegal in Tennessee passes but not without a fightwww.wsmv.comexternal-linkmessage-square151fedilinkarrow-up1463cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•1 year agoI’m intentionally trying to separate the social discrimination problem from the legal problem, and to not make a comment about the former. I guess I get that the state has an interest in preventing incestuous birth, but marriage is orthogonal sex.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•edit-21 year ago marriage is orthogonal sex> Rationally speaking, yes. The religious right seem to feel differently.
I’m intentionally trying to separate the social discrimination problem from the legal problem, and to not make a comment about the former.
I guess I get that the state has an interest in preventing incestuous birth, but marriage is orthogonal sex.
Rationally speaking, yes. The religious right seem to feel differently.