Oh  ... before somebody decides to BBQ my rump over the sibling thing:

No states currently allow marriage between siblings ... officially anyways.  

But I thought some of you might be interested in which States DO allow marriage between cousins.  

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Alabama:  First cousins, yes.

Alaska:    First cousins, yes.

Arizona:   First cousins, yes, only if they are over a certain age or cannot bear children. Half cousins, yes.

Arkansas: No

California: First cousins, yes.

Colorado:  First cousins, yes.

Connecticut: First cousins, yes.

Delaware:  No

District of Columbia: First cousins, yes.

Florida:     First cousins, yes.

Georgia:    First cousins, yes.

Hawaii:     First cousins, yes.

Idaho:      No

Illinois:     First cousins, yes, only if they are over a certain age or cannot bear children.

Indiana:   First cousins once removed, yes, only if they are over a certain age or cannot bear children.

Iowa:      No

Kansas:   Half cousins, yes.

Kentucky: No

Louisiana: Marriage between first cousins is not allowed.

Maine:      First cousins, yes, only if they are over a certain age or cannot bear children, or if they get genetic counseling.

Maryland:  First cousins, yes.

Massachusetts: First cousins, yes.

Michigan:   No

Minnesota: No, unless aboriginal culture of the couple permits cousin marriages.

Mississippi: Adopted cousins, yes.

Missouri:    No

Montana:   Half cousins, yes.

Nebraska:   Half cousins, yes.

Nevada:     Half cousins, yes.

New Hampshire: No

New Jersey: First cousins, yes.

New Mexico: First cousins, yes.

New York:    First cousins, yes.

North Carolina: First cousins, yes. Double first cousins are not allowed to get married.

North Dakota: No

Ohio:            No

Oklahoma:     Half cousins, yes.

Oregon:        Adopted cousins, yes.

Pennsylvania: No

Rhode Island: First cousins, yes.

South Carolina: First cousins, yes.

South Dakota: No

Tennessee:     First cousins, yes.

Texas:           No.

Utah:             First cousins, yes, only if they are over a certain age or cannot bear children.

Vermont:        First cousins, yes.

Virginia:          First cousins, yes.

Washington:    No

West Virginia: Adopted cousins, yes.

Wisconsin:      First cousins once removed, yes, only if they are over a certain age or cannot bear children.

Wyoming:        No


 

Thanks for that post. I had a good laugh reading the poster comments to that article. 

Love the comments in the article!  I am going to send it to my sister since she thinking about going vegan.

As for PETA, I am going to assume that they have never ever swatted a fly, used bug spray, stopped a caterpillar from eating their garden, fenced in their gardens from deer/others, and only purchase organic vegetables since non-organic farms use a pesticide sometimes.  For that matter, they must grow all of their own food since, within a harvest of vegetables in large quantity, you are bound to injure or *gasp* kill some insects.  They are truly above all of us nasty mean folk who give our pets the advantix to repel fleas (why shouldn't fleas have the same rights as others--they just want to eat!), who don't revel in the feel of mosquito bites because they know they have just donated food to those hungry buggers, and who accidentally swallow a fly when they are jogging because it flies into their mouths (yuck).  I applaud them.  Really.  Way to be better than all of us.

Seriously, I think PETA, when it started, had some great ideas and ideas with a lot of merit.  Without them, roadside zoos would still exist in huge quantity, animal abuse would not be punishable by law, and several other good things that have come from their existence.  However, they just tend to take things too far and ruin their credibility.