Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places

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The AP has an article about marriage between cousins (I realize that I should say "Kissin' Counsins" here, but it's too obvious for even me), and how some folks, who married their cousins, are trying to remove the stigma attached to such connubial unions (now, "connubial cousins" might work). Although a 2002 study showed that first cousins could have children together and not face serious danger of birth defects (and 26 states allow such marriages), it still creeps a lot of people out.

Why does it creep some people out?

• One of the visible examples uses phrases like this: “This is a decision me and my husband have made on our own."
• As a wise man once said: "If you view the upcoming family reunion as a chance to meet women. . . .you might be a redneck."
• Speaking of family reunions, they get awfully complicated -- Uncle Fred is now your father-in-law. (By the way, his sister -- your mother -- is now your aunt-in-law.)