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To: KLP who wrote (13732)10/25/2003 7:33:55 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793754
 
Surely you don't think Virginia or any other State should change their current laws on this, do you?

Virginia has lots of laws on the books that it doesn't enforce. I suppose this just gets to be another one of them. I certainly wouldn't recommend they make an effort to enforce it. That would be expensive and distasteful. I don't see any obligation to take affirmative action to change it, though.

During the time I was married, no on ever asked me to prove it. We just accept people's assertions that they're married and that stands until and unless there's some sort of legal skirmish like a separation or death or tax evasion at which point the law might get involved.

Would the country/countries of their origin change their laws for me if I immigrated there, just because I found them to be offensive to me?

I wouldn't expect anyone to change anything just because some find it offensive. "Offensive," IMO, isn't a good reason for anything legal. However, if an issue ever arose in its jurisdiction, I would hope that the state would take the opportunity to reevaluate the law to see if it still made sense rather than to hang on to it out of inertia or stubbornness. I don't think it makes any sense in this day and age to proscribe marriages between cousins. The state may have adequate interest in proscribing marriages between siblings, but not cousins. But I can't get too exercised over this one way or the other.

As for other countries, well, the US is billed as a beacon of freedom and justice. I don't expect from other countries what I do from us.
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