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Maybe when people down there stop sleeping with their cousins long enough
Originally posted by denver22
Yeah another one in sheeps clothing .
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
Originally posted by denver22
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by denver22
chill out now i know that i am not stupid i am aware it is not just vicars.
Only the Pope is the Vicar of Christ.
Originally posted by toochaos4u
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
Proof that it is true. In North Carolina you can marry your cousin just not your gay cousin.
I'll give Christians cred if they are the ones that organize to protest this man advocating putting fellow American Citizens into Christian Derived Concentration Camps. They won't get the cred though because they will not do it. The people that protest will be gays, family, friends of gays. The other churches will do nothing except whisper, "That is not us!"
But a change in the location of weddings was only the start. Marriage customs themselves also began to adapt under the new influence of Christianity. And as I say, in the opinion of a number of historians, modifications seemed to evolve as a way of undermining the influence of powerful family dynasties in favour of Church power. The first development in this regard involved a steady extension in the prohibition to marrying cousins, with exclusions eventually extending to sixth cousins. This change began very early, during the time of the late Roman Empire.
Family influence could then of course be replaced with Church influence. The Church also had a greater likelihood of winning endowments of land which had traditionally passed down through closely knit families. Clearly powerful families would want to resist this change, and indeed the law on marrying cousins was moderated from the eleventh century. In the British royal family the practice of marrying cousins has continued into modern times. Queen Elizabeth II married Prince Philip in 1947, and both share the same great great grandmother in Queen Victoria. The fact that it is lawful today for anyone to marry a cousin is due to royal influence - Henry VIII changed the law to allow his marriage to Catherine Parr, his fourth cousin, in 1543.
Originally posted by toochaos4u
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
Really don't care where it originated. It is there in North Carolina. Abraham though
had the blessing of being married to his half-sister so it is of no surprise. The discussion
though is about Christian Concentration Camps for American Citizens.
Originally posted by toochaos4u
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
How very nice of you to say to me. The point of bringing that up was further back someone brought up about NC cousins sleeping with each other. . No matter where it started we know now today that inbreeding brings forth both our good and bad qualities and we all have both. It has nothing to do with where the origin of this came from. I really do not care relating to this conversation. My only bias is in regard to citizens behind fences today. I'm sure you will prattle on and insult me more but, that is ok. I'm going to work in a few minutes and don't have time to keep up with this thread.
Christian cousins marry in NC because
Originally posted by The Sword
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
This is a state that openly allows the KKK to advertise in a local paper.
And you want to complain about how atheists treat Christians?
Try being an atheist and getting the "Repent or Die!" talk from Christians almost every time the topic of religion comes up.
And I've seen Christians say some pretty nasty # about atheists/atheism on here. Where were you when they did? Did you join them in their heckling?edit on 24-5-2012 by The Sword because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by The Sword
reply to post by nunya13
They will never be able to convince me.
I have met ex-Christians that thought it was perfectly acceptable to pull over on the side of the road and refuse to budge until someone accepted Christ.
US prohibitions on cousin marriage date to the Civil War and its immediate aftermath. The first ban was enacted by Kansas in 1858, with Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Wyoming following suit in the 1860s. Subsequently, the rate of increase in the number of laws was nearly constant until the mid-1920s
It demonstrates that western states are disproportionately represented, reflecting the fact that either as territories or newly admitted states, they were writing their marriage codes from scratch and hence prompted to explicitly confront the issue. For the same reason, these states tended to be the first to prohibit cousin marriage.
Perhaps surprisingly, these bans are not attributable to the rise of eugenics
Nonetheless, in both the US and Europe, the frequency of first-cousin marriage—a practice that had often been favored, especially by elites—sharply declined during the second half of the 19th century [3]. (The reasons are both complex and contested, but likely include improved transportation and communication, which increased the range of marriage partners; a decline in family size, which limited the number of marriageable cousins; and greater female mobility and autonomy [4,5].) The fact that no European country barred cousins from marrying, while many US states did and still do, has often been interpreted as proof of a special American animosity toward the practice [6].
The laws must also be viewed in the context of a new, post–Civil War acceptance of the need for state oversight of education, commerce, and health and safety, including marriage and the family. Beginning in the 1860s, many states passed anti-miscegenation laws, increased the statutory age of marriage, and adopted or expanded medical and mental-capacity restrictions in marriage law [7]. Thus, laws prohibiting cousin marriage were but one aspect of a more general trend to broaden state authority in areas previously considered private
Originally posted by The Sword
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
Do you have anything to contribute to what I posted?
Or are you just going to prattle on and on?
Do YOU think it's acceptable for Christians to literally FORCE someone to accept Jesus? DO YOU?