You want to be a Republican? Then sign this.....

[AvgGuyIA]

SC County GOP If You ve Had Pre-Marital Sex You Can t Be A Republican

WOW, have of the repubs in Congress now would be ineligible!

Why would anybody want to enter into marriage impure? Your spouse for life deserves better.

 

[2aguy]

SC County GOP If You ve Had Pre-Marital Sex You Can t Be A Republican

WOW, have of the repubs in Congress now would be ineligible!

Though at first the resolution would have required candidates to sign the pledge, Smith clarifiedin a statement Monday that "due to various legal issues" the LCGOP cannot require that the candidates sign the pledge if they meet all of the other qualifications for a run. But, he said, the committee "reserves the right to vet its candidates and will encourage all candidates to uphold the principles of the party's platform as well as petition candidates to sign a pledge to do so. However, no candidate will be denied access to the Republican Party primary ballot for refusing to sign the pledge."

One county in one State.....

It is indicative of the GOP's holier than thou attitude. The GOP is a Cesspool of Hypocrisy....

Says the guy defending the gays who destroy the lives of bakers, florists, and photographers.....because they won't bake them a cake, sell them flowers or take photos of one event........they will work with them on everything else....but not the wedding.......and so they will take their businesses from them....

Yeah...you assholes are real tolerant.......

 

[martybegan]

Only if I think their actions are somehow wrong, which I don't.

You can't project rationalizing onto other people.

false!
Full Definition of RATIONALIZE
transitive verb
1
: to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: as

a : to substitute a natural for a supernatural explanation of <rationalize a myth>

b : to attribute (one's actions) to rational and creditable motives without analysis of true and especially unconscious motives <rationalized his dislike of his brother> ; broadly : to create an excuse or more attractive explanation for <rationalize the problem>
still all you.

supporting or defending others or your own actions is as the above states: rationalizing

please link where you got that definition from.

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Rationalization (making excuses)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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For other uses, see Rationalization.

In psychology and logic, rationalization or rationalisation (also known as making excuses[1]) is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable – or even admirable and superior – by plausible means.[2] It is also an informal fallacy of reasoning.[3]

Rationalization encourages irrational or unacceptable behavior, motives, or feelings and often involves ad hoc hypothesizing. This process ranges from fully conscious (e.g. to present an external defense against ridicule from others) to mostly unconscious (e.g. to create a block against internal feelings of guilt). People rationalize for various reasons — sometimes when we think we know ourselves better than we do. Rationalization may differentiate the original deterministic explanation of the behavior or feeling in question.[4][5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(making_excuses)
can't wait for you too rationalize these......

What I am doing is not rationalizing, again, you don't really know what the word means, or you do, and just are to stupid to realize it.

If I don;t see anything wrong about what that Caucus did, how can I rationalize it?

are you really this stupid......?
it's because you don't see any thing wrong with their actions, while non delusional people do, is by definition rationalizing!

rationalization or rationalisation (also known as making excuses[1]) is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable – or even admirable and superior – by plausible means.[2] It is also an informal fallacy of reasoning.[3]

Again, it would be rationalizing if YOU were doing it. I see nothing wrong in a political party asking people wanting to run under said parties banner to sign a pledge acknowledging the ideals of the party. Its a political party, not the government, not some job, its running for office with the blessings and support of said party mechanism.

You really aren't getting this.

 

[daws101]

false!
Full Definition of RATIONALIZE
transitive verb
1
: to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: as

a : to substitute a natural for a supernatural explanation of <rationalize a myth>

b : to attribute (one's actions) to rational and creditable motives without analysis of true and especially unconscious motives <rationalized his dislike of his brother> ; broadly : to create an excuse or more attractive explanation for <rationalize the problem>
still all you.

supporting or defending others or your own actions is as the above states: rationalizing

please link where you got that definition from.

ok .....Rationalize - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

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Rationalization (making excuses)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search
For other uses, see Rationalization.

In psychology and logic, rationalization or rationalisation (also known as making excuses[1]) is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable – or even admirable and superior – by plausible means.[2] It is also an informal fallacy of reasoning.[3]

Rationalization encourages irrational or unacceptable behavior, motives, or feelings and often involves ad hoc hypothesizing. This process ranges from fully conscious (e.g. to present an external defense against ridicule from others) to mostly unconscious (e.g. to create a block against internal feelings of guilt). People rationalize for various reasons — sometimes when we think we know ourselves better than we do. Rationalization may differentiate the original deterministic explanation of the behavior or feeling in question.[4][5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(making_excuses)
can't wait for you too rationalize these......

What I am doing is not rationalizing, again, you don't really know what the word means, or you do, and just are to stupid to realize it.

If I don;t see anything wrong about what that Caucus did, how can I rationalize it?

are you really this stupid......?
it's because you don't see any thing wrong with their actions, while non delusional people do, is by definition rationalizing!

rationalization or rationalisation (also known as making excuses[1]) is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable – or even admirable and superior – by plausible means.[2] It is also an informal fallacy of reasoning.[3]

Again, it would be rationalizing if YOU were doing it. I see nothing wrong in a political party asking people wanting to run under said parties banner to sign a pledge acknowledging the ideals of the party. Its a political party, not the government, not some job, its running for office with the blessings and support of said party mechanism.

You really aren't getting this.

Rationalization encourages irrational or unacceptable behavior, motives, or feelings and often involves ad hoc hypothesizing. This process ranges from fully conscious (e.g. to present an external defense against ridicule from others) to mostly unconscious (e.g. to create a block against internal feelings of guilt). People rationalize for various reasons — sometimes when we think we know ourselves better than we do. Rationalization may differentiate the original deterministic explanation of the behavior or feeling in question.[4][5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(making_excuses)

 

[martybegan]

please link where you got that definition from.

ok .....Rationalize - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

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Rationalization (making excuses)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search
For other uses, see Rationalization.

In psychology and logic, rationalization or rationalisation (also known as making excuses[1]) is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable – or even admirable and superior – by plausible means.[2] It is also an informal fallacy of reasoning.[3]

Rationalization encourages irrational or unacceptable behavior, motives, or feelings and often involves ad hoc hypothesizing. This process ranges from fully conscious (e.g. to present an external defense against ridicule from others) to mostly unconscious (e.g. to create a block against internal feelings of guilt). People rationalize for various reasons — sometimes when we think we know ourselves better than we do. Rationalization may differentiate the original deterministic explanation of the behavior or feeling in question.[4][5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(making_excuses)
can't wait for you too rationalize these......

What I am doing is not rationalizing, again, you don't really know what the word means, or you do, and just are to stupid to realize it.

If I don;t see anything wrong about what that Caucus did, how can I rationalize it?

are you really this stupid......?
it's because you don't see any thing wrong with their actions, while non delusional people do, is by definition rationalizing!

rationalization or rationalisation (also known as making excuses[1]) is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable – or even admirable and superior – by plausible means.[2] It is also an informal fallacy of reasoning.[3]

Again, it would be rationalizing if YOU were doing it. I see nothing wrong in a political party asking people wanting to run under said parties banner to sign a pledge acknowledging the ideals of the party. Its a political party, not the government, not some job, its running for office with the blessings and support of said party mechanism.

You really aren't getting this.

Rationalization encourages irrational or unacceptable behavior, motives, or feelings and often involves ad hoc hypothesizing. This process ranges from fully conscious (e.g. to present an external defense against ridicule from others) to mostly unconscious (e.g. to create a block against internal feelings of guilt). People rationalize for various reasons — sometimes when we think we know ourselves better than we do. Rationalization may differentiate the original deterministic explanation of the behavior or feeling in question.[4][5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(making_excuses)

Now you are just forcing it.

 

[daws101]

ok .....Rationalize - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

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Rationalization (making excuses)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search
For other uses, see Rationalization.

In psychology and logic, rationalization or rationalisation (also known as making excuses[1]) is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable – or even admirable and superior – by plausible means.[2] It is also an informal fallacy of reasoning.[3]

Rationalization encourages irrational or unacceptable behavior, motives, or feelings and often involves ad hoc hypothesizing. This process ranges from fully conscious (e.g. to present an external defense against ridicule from others) to mostly unconscious (e.g. to create a block against internal feelings of guilt). People rationalize for various reasons — sometimes when we think we know ourselves better than we do. Rationalization may differentiate the original deterministic explanation of the behavior or feeling in question.[4][5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(making_excuses)
can't wait for you too rationalize these......

What I am doing is not rationalizing, again, you don't really know what the word means, or you do, and just are to stupid to realize it.

If I don;t see anything wrong about what that Caucus did, how can I rationalize it?

are you really this stupid......?
it's because you don't see any thing wrong with their actions, while non delusional people do, is by definition rationalizing!

rationalization or rationalisation (also known as making excuses[1]) is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable – or even admirable and superior – by plausible means.[2] It is also an informal fallacy of reasoning.[3]

Again, it would be rationalizing if YOU were doing it. I see nothing wrong in a political party asking people wanting to run under said parties banner to sign a pledge acknowledging the ideals of the party. Its a political party, not the government, not some job, its running for office with the blessings and support of said party mechanism.

You really aren't getting this.

Rationalization encourages irrational or unacceptable behavior, motives, or feelings and often involves ad hoc hypothesizing. This process ranges from fully conscious (e.g. to present an external defense against ridicule from others) to mostly unconscious (e.g. to create a block against internal feelings of guilt). People rationalize for various reasons — sometimes when we think we know ourselves better than we do. Rationalization may differentiate the original deterministic explanation of the behavior or feeling in question.[4][5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(making_excuses)

Now you are just forcing it.

false, just stating fact and you are still rationalizing

 

[martybegan]

What I am doing is not rationalizing, again, you don't really know what the word means, or you do, and just are to stupid to realize it.

If I don;t see anything wrong about what that Caucus did, how can I rationalize it?

are you really this stupid......?
it's because you don't see any thing wrong with their actions, while non delusional people do, is by definition rationalizing!

rationalization or rationalisation (also known as making excuses[1]) is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable – or even admirable and superior – by plausible means.[2] It is also an informal fallacy of reasoning.[3]

Again, it would be rationalizing if YOU were doing it. I see nothing wrong in a political party asking people wanting to run under said parties banner to sign a pledge acknowledging the ideals of the party. Its a political party, not the government, not some job, its running for office with the blessings and support of said party mechanism.

You really aren't getting this.

Rationalization encourages irrational or unacceptable behavior, motives, or feelings and often involves ad hoc hypothesizing. This process ranges from fully conscious (e.g. to present an external defense against ridicule from others) to mostly unconscious (e.g. to create a block against internal feelings of guilt). People rationalize for various reasons — sometimes when we think we know ourselves better than we do. Rationalization may differentiate the original deterministic explanation of the behavior or feeling in question.[4][5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(making_excuses)

Now you are just forcing it.

false, just stating fact and you are still rationalizing

Nope, you are forcing, and basically on the verge of obsessing.
Again, you thinking there is something wrong with this and me 1) not caring and 2) not seeing the issue does not make it me rationalizing anything.

 

[daws101]

are you really this stupid......?
it's because you don't see any thing wrong with their actions, while non delusional people do, is by definition rationalizing!

rationalization or rationalisation (also known as making excuses[1]) is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable – or even admirable and superior – by plausible means.[2] It is also an informal fallacy of reasoning.[3]

Again, it would be rationalizing if YOU were doing it. I see nothing wrong in a political party asking people wanting to run under said parties banner to sign a pledge acknowledging the ideals of the party. Its a political party, not the government, not some job, its running for office with the blessings and support of said party mechanism.

You really aren't getting this.

Rationalization encourages irrational or unacceptable behavior, motives, or feelings and often involves ad hoc hypothesizing. This process ranges from fully conscious (e.g. to present an external defense against ridicule from others) to mostly unconscious (e.g. to create a block against internal feelings of guilt). People rationalize for various reasons — sometimes when we think we know ourselves better than we do. Rationalization may differentiate the original deterministic explanation of the behavior or feeling in question.[4][5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(making_excuses)

Now you are just forcing it.

false, just stating fact and you are still rationalizing

Nope, you are forcing, and basically on the verge of obsessing.
Again, you thinking there is something wrong with this and me 1) not caring and 2) not seeing the issue does not make it me rationalizing anything.

false...

 

[jknowgood]

SC County GOP If You ve Had Pre-Marital Sex You Can t Be A Republican

WOW, have of the repubs in Congress now would be ineligible!

Though at first the resolution would have required candidates to sign the pledge, Smith clarifiedin a statement Monday that "due to various legal issues" the LCGOP cannot require that the candidates sign the pledge if they meet all of the other qualifications for a run. But, he said, the committee "reserves the right to vet its candidates and will encourage all candidates to uphold the principles of the party's platform as well as petition candidates to sign a pledge to do so. However, no candidate will be denied access to the Republican Party primary ballot for refusing to sign the pledge."

One county in one State.....

It is indicative of the GOP's holier than thou attitude. The GOP is a Cesspool of Hypocrisy....

LOL, progressives have the same attitude about different things. Its what makes you want to ostracize anyone that doesn't accept things like gay marriage, never mind tolerate it. You idiots are worse because you use government to force people to accept your morals.

All this GOP section is doing is ASKING people to sign a pledge.

I just think how these people fall over themselves to hear and believe the new Obama lie. Then stand behind him. That's the kind of intelligence we are dealing with.

 

[jknowgood]

SC County GOP If You ve Had Pre-Marital Sex You Can t Be A Republican

WOW, have of the repubs in Congress now would be ineligible!

does sex with your sister count? after all it is the south !

In new york a blood related father and daughter are gonna get married and are planning to have kids. So them liberals are pretty sick, and your kind paved the way to make this possible.

 

[daws101]

SC County GOP If You ve Had Pre-Marital Sex You Can t Be A Republican

WOW, have of the repubs in Congress now would be ineligible!

Though at first the resolution would have required candidates to sign the pledge, Smith clarifiedin a statement Monday that "due to various legal issues" the LCGOP cannot require that the candidates sign the pledge if they meet all of the other qualifications for a run. But, he said, the committee "reserves the right to vet its candidates and will encourage all candidates to uphold the principles of the party's platform as well as petition candidates to sign a pledge to do so. However, no candidate will be denied access to the Republican Party primary ballot for refusing to sign the pledge."

One county in one State.....

It is indicative of the GOP's holier than thou attitude. The GOP is a Cesspool of Hypocrisy....

LOL, progressives have the same attitude about different things. Its what makes you want to ostracize anyone that doesn't accept things like gay marriage, never mind tolerate it. You idiots are worse because you use government to force people to accept your morals.

All this GOP section is doing is ASKING people to sign a pledge.

I just think how these people fall over themselves to hear and believe the new Obama lie. Then stand behind him. That's the kind of intelligence we are dealing with.

having no real intelligence that's something you cannot know.

 

[daws101]

SC County GOP If You ve Had Pre-Marital Sex You Can t Be A Republican

WOW, have of the repubs in Congress now would be ineligible!

does sex with your sister count? after all it is the south !

In new york a blood related father and daughter are gonna get married and are planning to have kids. So them liberals are pretty sick, and your kind paved the way to make this possible.

false! marrying relatives no matter how close the blood relationship is, has been going on since marriage was invented..
I have no doubt that somewhere in your linage there was some sister fucking going on ...
you can pitch a fit now!

 

[jknowgood]

SC County GOP If You ve Had Pre-Marital Sex You Can t Be A Republican

WOW, have of the repubs in Congress now would be ineligible!

does sex with your sister count? after all it is the south !

In new york a blood related father and daughter are gonna get married and are planning to have kids. So them liberals are pretty sick, and your kind paved the way to make this possible.

false! marrying relatives no matter how close the blood relationship is, has been going on since marriage was invented..
I have no doubt that somewhere in your linage there was some sister fucking going on ...
you can pitch a fit now!

Did government sanction it?

 

[bodecea]

SC County GOP If You ve Had Pre-Marital Sex You Can t Be A Republican

WOW, have of the repubs in Congress now would be ineligible!

Though at first the resolution would have required candidates to sign the pledge, Smith clarifiedin a statement Monday that "due to various legal issues" the LCGOP cannot require that the candidates sign the pledge if they meet all of the other qualifications for a run. But, he said, the committee "reserves the right to vet its candidates and will encourage all candidates to uphold the principles of the party's platform as well as petition candidates to sign a pledge to do so. However, no candidate will be denied access to the Republican Party primary ballot for refusing to sign the pledge."

One county in one State.....

So very wonderful!!!!!!!!!

 

[JimH52]

SC County GOP If You ve Had Pre-Marital Sex You Can t Be A Republican

WOW, have of the repubs in Congress now would be ineligible!

Though at first the resolution would have required candidates to sign the pledge, Smith clarifiedin a statement Monday that "due to various legal issues" the LCGOP cannot require that the candidates sign the pledge if they meet all of the other qualifications for a run. But, he said, the committee "reserves the right to vet its candidates and will encourage all candidates to uphold the principles of the party's platform as well as petition candidates to sign a pledge to do so. However, no candidate will be denied access to the Republican Party primary ballot for refusing to sign the pledge."

One county in one State.....

It is indicative of the GOP's holier than thou attitude. The GOP is a Cesspool of Hypocrisy....

Says the guy defending the gays who destroy the lives of bakers, florists, and photographers.....because they won't bake them a cake, sell them flowers or take photos of one event........they will work with them on everything else....but not the wedding.......and so they will take their businesses from them....

Yeah...you assholes are real tolerant.......

Wait....you mean a gay person who is told they cannot have a cake baked for them and their partner should still do business with the baker? Really? You, a free enterprise loving repub are saying that even though a business refused to serve an individual, they should still take their business there....REALLY.

ARE YOU BRAIN DEAD?

 

[ScienceRocks]

SC County GOP If You ve Had Pre-Marital Sex You Can t Be A Republican

WOW, have of the repubs in Congress now would be ineligible!

Well, this guys a kook and a idiot! Going back to the 19th century isn't wise...

 

[asaratis]

What I am doing is not rationalizing, again, you don't really know what the word means, or you do, and just are to stupid to realize it.

If I don;t see anything wrong about what that Caucus did, how can I rationalize it?

are you really this stupid......?
it's because you don't see any thing wrong with their actions, while non delusional people do, is by definition rationalizing!

rationalization or rationalisation (also known as making excuses[1]) is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable – or even admirable and superior – by plausible means.[2] It is also an informal fallacy of reasoning.[3]

Again, it would be rationalizing if YOU were doing it. I see nothing wrong in a political party asking people wanting to run under said parties banner to sign a pledge acknowledging the ideals of the party. Its a political party, not the government, not some job, its running for office with the blessings and support of said party mechanism.

You really aren't getting this.

Rationalization encourages irrational or unacceptable behavior, motives, or feelings and often involves ad hoc hypothesizing. This process ranges from fully conscious (e.g. to present an external defense against ridicule from others) to mostly unconscious (e.g. to create a block against internal feelings of guilt). People rationalize for various reasons — sometimes when we think we know ourselves better than we do. Rationalization may differentiate the original deterministic explanation of the behavior or feeling in question.[4][5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(making_excuses)

Now you are just forcing it.

false, just stating fact and you are still rationalizing

By your own links, you condemn yourself to rationalization...in your idiotic attempt to hijack the thread and improperly brand martybegan. You are so convinced of your inability to err that you ignore logic. The question was answered clearly for you many posts back.

 

[jknowgood]

SC County GOP If You ve Had Pre-Marital Sex You Can t Be A Republican

WOW, have of the repubs in Congress now would be ineligible!

Though at first the resolution would have required candidates to sign the pledge, Smith clarifiedin a statement Monday that "due to various legal issues" the LCGOP cannot require that the candidates sign the pledge if they meet all of the other qualifications for a run. But, he said, the committee "reserves the right to vet its candidates and will encourage all candidates to uphold the principles of the party's platform as well as petition candidates to sign a pledge to do so. However, no candidate will be denied access to the Republican Party primary ballot for refusing to sign the pledge."

One county in one State.....

It is indicative of the GOP's holier than thou attitude. The GOP is a Cesspool of Hypocrisy....

LOL, progressives have the same attitude about different things. Its what makes you want to ostracize anyone that doesn't accept things like gay marriage, never mind tolerate it. You idiots are worse because you use government to force people to accept your morals.

All this GOP section is doing is ASKING people to sign a pledge.

I just think how these people fall over themselves to hear and believe the new Obama lie. Then stand behind him. That's the kind of intelligence we are dealing with.

having no real intelligence that's something you cannot know.

What? At least i'm not a blind Obama puppet.

 

[martybegan]

SC County GOP If You ve Had Pre-Marital Sex You Can t Be A Republican

WOW, have of the repubs in Congress now would be ineligible!

Though at first the resolution would have required candidates to sign the pledge, Smith clarifiedin a statement Monday that "due to various legal issues" the LCGOP cannot require that the candidates sign the pledge if they meet all of the other qualifications for a run. But, he said, the committee "reserves the right to vet its candidates and will encourage all candidates to uphold the principles of the party's platform as well as petition candidates to sign a pledge to do so. However, no candidate will be denied access to the Republican Party primary ballot for refusing to sign the pledge."

One county in one State.....

It is indicative of the GOP's holier than thou attitude. The GOP is a Cesspool of Hypocrisy....

LOL, progressives have the same attitude about different things. Its what makes you want to ostracize anyone that doesn't accept things like gay marriage, never mind tolerate it. You idiots are worse because you use government to force people to accept your morals.

All this GOP section is doing is ASKING people to sign a pledge.

I just think how these people fall over themselves to hear and believe the new Obama lie. Then stand behind him. That's the kind of intelligence we are dealing with.

having no real intelligence that's something you cannot know.

I'll put my IQ on the line against you any day of the week chippy.

Having an OCD episode over one word like you are having is not intelligence.

 

[daws101]

SC County GOP If You ve Had Pre-Marital Sex You Can t Be A Republican

WOW, have of the repubs in Congress now would be ineligible!

does sex with your sister count? after all it is the south !

In new york a blood related father and daughter are gonna get married and are planning to have kids. So them liberals are pretty sick, and your kind paved the way to make this possible.

false! marrying relatives no matter how close the blood relationship is, has been going on since marriage was invented..
I have no doubt that somewhere in your linage there was some sister fucking going on ...
you can pitch a fit now!

Did government sanction it?

irrelevant


History[edit]
According to Professor Robin Fox of Rutgers University, it is likely that 80% of all marriages in history may have been between second cousins or closer.[9] The founding population of Homo sapiens was small, anywhere from 700 to 10,000 individuals. Considering the population dispersal caused by a hunter-gatherer existence, a certain amount of inbreeding would have been inevitable.[10] Proportions of first-cousin marriage in the United States, Europe and other Western countries like Brazil have declined since the 19th century, though even during that period they were not more than 3.63 percent of all unions in Europe.[11][12] In some other world regions, cousin marriage is still strongly favored: in the Middle East, some countries have seen the rate rise over previous generations. One study finds stable rates among Indian Muslims over the past four decades.[13][14][15]

Cousin marriage has often been chosen to keep cultural values intact through many generations and to preserve familial wealth, sometimes via advantages relating to dowry or bride price. Other reasons for cousin marriage may include geographic proximity, tradition, strengthening of family ties, maintenance of family structure, or a closer relationship between the wife and her in-laws. Many such marriages are arranged and facilitated by other extended family members[3][9][16][17][18] (see also pages on arranged marriage in the Indian subcontinent, arranged marriages in Pakistan, and arranged marriages in Japan).

United States[edit]
Cousin marriage was legal in all states before the Civil War.[citation needed] However, according to Kansas anthropology professor Martin Ottenheimer,[19] the main purposes of marriage prohibitions were maintaining the social order and upholding religious morality and safeguarding the creation of fit offspring. Indeed, writers such as Noah Webster (1758–1843) and ministers like Philip Milledoler (1775–1852) and Joshua McIlvaine helped lay the groundwork for such viewpoints well before 1860. This led to a gradual shift in concern from affinal unions, like those between a man and his deceased wife's sister, to consanguineous unions. By the 1870s, Lewis Henry Morgan (1818–1881) was writing about "the advantages of marriages between unrelated persons" and the necessity of avoiding "the evils of consanguine marriage", avoidance of which would "increase the vigor of the stock". To many, Morgan included, cousin marriage, and more specifically parallel-cousin marriage, was a remnant of a more primitive stage of human social organization.[20] Morgan himself had married his maternal uncle's daughter in 1851.[21]

In 1846 Massachusetts Governor George N. Briggs appointed a commission to study "idiots" in the state, and this study implicated cousin marriage as responsible for idiocy. Within the next two decades, numerous reports (e.g., one from the Kentucky Deaf and Dumb Asylum) appeared with similar conclusions: that cousin marriage sometimes resulted in deafness, blindness, and idiocy. Perhaps most important was the report of physician Samuel Merrifield Bemiss for the American Medical Association, which concluded "that multiplication of the same blood by in-and-in marrying does incontestably lead in the aggregate to the physical and mental depravation of the offspring". Despite being contradicted by other studies like those of George Darwin and Alan Huth in England and Robert Newman in New York, the report's conclusions were widely accepted.[22]

These developments led to 13 states and territories passing cousin marriage prohibitions by the 1880s. Though contemporaneous, the eugenics movement did not play much of a direct role in the bans. George Louis Arner in 1908 considered the ban a clumsy and ineffective method of eugenics, which he thought would eventually be replaced by more refined techniques. Ottenheimer considers both the bans and eugenics to be "one of several reactions to the fear that American society might degenerate".[23] During this period, up until the mid-1920s, the number of bans had more than doubled.[7] Since that time, the only three states to add this prohibition have been Kentucky in 1943, Maine in 1985, and Texas in 2005. The NCCUSL unanimously recommended in 1970 that all such laws should be repealed, but no state has dropped its prohibition since the mid-1920s.[1][9][24]

Cousin marriage - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

the answer is yes...