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British health service says marrying your first cousin has many benefits and "economic advantages"

The UK's National Health Service is the country's government-run (socialistic) healthcare system.

Last week, NHS England's "Genomics Education Programme" seriously published guidance that said incest is okay, even if such inbreeding comes with double the risk of genetic defects (this is basic science, folks!).

Even dumber (somehow) is the fact that the NHS uses King Henry VIII as an example of cousin marriage.

Are the people in charge of the UK's healthcare system actually this dumb?

Divorcing your wife and marrying her cousin is not consanguineous marriage under any sense of the word. The word "consanguineous" literally means "of the same blood" in Latin. It's talking about a man marrying his own cousin.

Third graders should be smart enough to figure that out (may God have mercy on England).

Fortunately, the NHS was forced to apologize (for the moment) after swift public backlash.

Dr Patrick Nash, an expert on religious law and director of the Pharos Foundation social science research group in Oxford, called the guidance 'truly dismaying'.

'Cousin marriage is incest, plain and simple, and needs to be banned with the utmost urgency - there is no "balance" to be struck between this cultural lifestyle choice and the severe public health implications it incurs.

'This official article is deeply misleading and should be retracted with an apology so that the public is not misled by omission and half-truths.'

Critics say the NHS is trying to appease the large number of Muslim migrants who have flooded the UK in recent years. 1.6 million Pakistanis lived in Great Britain as of 2021, or 2.2% of the population. Pakistanis have an insanely high rate of incest - a whopping 61% of all marriages are consanguineous. This has followed Pakistanis to the UK - 55% of all married Pakistanis in Great Britain are wed to their cousins.

The NHS responded to the criticism of its guidelines by claiming they are not the British government's official position (yet). The NHS says it just wanted to have a dialogue about incest as part of an important democratic discussion.

A spokesman for NHS England said: 'The article published on the website of the Genomics Education Programme is a summary of existing scientific research and the public policy debate. It is not expressing an NHS view.'

UPDATE I — watch for our CT Muslims to hop across the pond as this new CT law takes effect October 1st;

First-cousin marriage ban

Connecticut will join about two dozen other states in prohibiting the marriage of first cousins who are aware of their relationship. Current law bans people from entering into matrimony with their parents, siblings, grandparents, children, grandchildren, parents' siblings, siblings' children, stepparents or stepchildren. While the new law has no penalties, it is aimed at cutting down on birth defects related to familiar inbreeding.

UPDATE II. Totally unrelated: