Cousin Marriage
14th-century miniature of a family tree Cousin Marriage | Friday – March 13, 2026 C ousin Marriages are in the news again, and this time, politicians in many Western nations are proposing to make marriages between cousins illegal; I should also point out that often these measures are aimed at certain immigrant communities with a high proportion of Mohammedans, another consequence of multiculturalism . The arguments against cousin marriages are the usual, material only, including the notion that women in these marriages are somehow oppressed ( read Feminism ) and that the offspring "produced" in the union between two cousins are more likely to suffer from certain genetic disabilities, a point actually quite contested among modern scientists, read Sacred Medicine . Of course, the point about "protecting" women is always salient these days, as modern women are apparently always being oppressed by the mores and ways of the " primitives ", who lack any sense...