Can’t Get Married? Marry Your 14-Year-Old Cousin Instead
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While most states haven’t legalized marriage equality, it’s still completely okay to marry your first cousin or a 14-year-old in a handful of states. In New York you can even marry your gay 14-year-old cousin if you want to—HAWT! Better start getting in shape and reading YA novels for the next family reunion.
Via Unicorn Booty
it’s the same logic that allows blowhard pigs like Limbaugh, Gingrich and Trump to ramble about their “respect for traditional marriage” while they’re making habits of collecting ex-wives.
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It also bears mention that, under the legal doctrine of comity, all states and the federal government will treat any marriage as valid even if it violates state or federal law, provided the marriage was valid where it was performed.
With one conspicuous exception carved out exclusively for one discrete minority.
Guess who?
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Marrying one’s first blood cousin is not construed as incest under the law, if you’re heterosexual of course. The religious cults condone it. I guess that’s why there’s so much mental retardation in the republican party and its offshoots the Tea Party and Civil Libertarian scumbaggers, all that inbreeding, especially in the red states where porn consumption is higher than anywhere else.
Rudy Giuliani, former mayor my my city, married his first blood cousin but divorced her, while committing the ever so sinful adultery with the second woman. Did the adulterous dirty thing on her then married his third. No rumors yet if he’s doing the dirty on her yet. This while not supporting marriage equality for gay couples, in fact emphatically opposed it. Bigot of the year in my town for sure. Ditto Rev. Ruben Diaz (conservadem) on his second marriage, committed adultery to marry the second. They are the masters of hypocrisy.
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@Wies:
There IS NO sense in any of this thats the thing that makes this entire laughable to begin with lol
A person can marry a family member but 2 people of the same sex can’t get married?
I keep thinking Ashton Kutchers gonna post any minute and say you’ve all been PUNK’D! :)
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As much as I detest having “2nd class” options like Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships, the above illustrations fail to show that there are several states that allow Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships that are equal to marriage. They just don’t have the name. And, in some states they DO recognize same-sex marriages from other states AS equal to marriage – but they receive the “status” of Domestic Partners in that state. So, a gay area exists that is not reflected above. In short, some states are slowly progressing towards full equality incrementally. The problem is that DOMA (which is federal) exists. So, we have a patchwork of varying laws that range from full-discrimination to partial discrimination. When DOMA goes away and when our federal courts begin striking down discriminatory laws THEN we’ll see a wide movement of equality across the USA. But, again, the above illustrations fail to recognized that many states do offer Domestic Partnerships and Civil Unions AND that some states DO recognize same-sex marriages (from other states) and yet classify them as a Domestic Partnership in their state. So, there is a gray area, a middle ground, of equality that the above illustrations aren’t showing. I’m not saying I like Domestic Partnerships or Civil Unions. But, we’re lacking illustrations that give a full and accurate picture of the US landscape and what progress is happening incrementally.
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@the crustybastard: Furthermore, I think most Americans don’t even have a clue about how totally distorted the Marriage Laws already are.
Where are those PTA soccermom busybodies screaming “THINK OF THE CHILDREN!” in a campaign to force ALL STATES to increase the minimum age up to 18 for all marriage?
Rather points out the rampant hypocrisy in the good ol’ USA
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@CJ: You are right. Until DOMA is repealed there is no difference between a marriage in Iowa and a civil union in Illinois. You might as well color NJ, IL, DE, HI, RI, CA, WA, OR, and NV in (perhaps as a different color) as well, since they do have an exact marriage equivalent, and are showing at least some progress on that front.
Also, where did they get the info for the constitutional ban map? Illinois does NOT have a constitutional ban on marriage equality (just a statute like WY or MN). Also, Arkansas DOES have a constitutional ban on marriage, and Michigan has one on ANY recognition of gay partnerships and has had one since 2004! Michigan is the worst of the worst in this category (along with Virginia). That map is grossly inaccurate.
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@Flick: There’s at least one difference, DOMA or not: portability. If you are married and go somewhere else that recognizes gay marriages as valid, yours is recognized there. Civil unions may or may not be.
And, of course, when DOMA falls then full marriages will be recognized here federally too. That’s an advantage right now of having one.
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@doug degnan: So, you can’t think of *any* reasons a 14-year-old and a 50-year-old should not marry other than their happening to be of the same sex?
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americans are nothing but a bunch of hypocritical retards. and you wonder why the world laughs at us and why we are falling in stature