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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 476: Why can't we marry our cousins?
Description: The boys drink and review a light dopplebock from Schlaffly then discuss the cultural relevance of cousin marriage.
The England parliament has recently started debating whether to prohibit cousin marriage, which P&C thought was already against the law. Apparently not -- not in England, and not in all the states.
The increase in Muslims in England has made this a big issue. In Pakistan, up to 60 percent of marriages are to first cousins.
In England, while British Pakistanis accounted for 3.4 percent of all births, they had 30 percent of all children with recessive...