Also: probably the worse wikipedia page to accidentally send to the family group chat 👀

  • baahb@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    This isn’t an “um actually,” simply a weird american thing that I’ve experienced but, marriage to your first cousin is not illegal here. Prolly should be, and you aren’t wrong about it being immigration fraud but still, if it was a real marriage, there wouldn’t be anything illegal about it.

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      a weird american thing that I’ve experienced but, marriage to your first cousin is not illegal here

      you’ve what now?

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      Yeah, pretty sure we even had a President or two who married their first cousin. One of the Roosevelts, maybe?

      Edit: not FDR (his wife was a much more distant cousin), but John Quincy Adams is an example.