There's always some Sidney Spoilsport who has to come along and ruin the party
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nothing about marrying the ring bearer, though
Busybody CT legislator with nothing better to do wants to ban marriage between consenting cousins.
A proposed bill, introduced by state Rep. Devin Carney, R-Old Saybrook, now before the legislature’s judiciary committee would add “cousin,” to the list of people Connecticut residents may not legally marry.
“Somebody actually sent me an article about it. Tennessee recently banned it. They passed a law to ban it,” Carney said. “I was told it's not banned in Connecticut, so I started looking into it and over 30 states do ban it, and Connecticut is not one of them.”
Representative Carney refused to divulge to FWIW the reason he is so otherwise unoccupied that he has time for matters like this, but he does deny that he was responsible for the law already on the books that declares invalid “The marriage of a niece and her uncle in Italy.” “Someone beat me to that one”, he admits, “but I’ll find something equally compelling to address — what would you think of a ban on Armenian left-handed seamstresses hooking up with one-legged ox cart drivers? Or Eskimo mukluk nibblers tying the knot with an RCMP or his horse?”