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It's 2024, and you can still marry your first cousin in Tennessee. Who knew?
Source: Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Republican-led Tennessee Legislature has overwhelmingly voted to send GOP Gov. Bill Lee a proposal that would ban marriage between first cousins.
The House cast a 75-2 vote Thursday on the bill after the Senate previously approved it without any opposition.
But a particularly vocal opponent, Republican Rep. Gino Bulso, took up most of the debate time, as he argued for an amendment to allow first-cousin marriages if the couple first seeks counseling from a genetic counselor.
In a previous committee hearing on the bill, Bulso lightheartedly shared a story about how his grandparents were first cousins who came to the U.S. from Italy in the 1920s, then traveled from Ohio to Tennessee to get married. He and other lawmakers laughed, and Bulso voted for the bill in that committee.
And then because he's a right wing attention whore, Bulso brought up gay marriage for no apparent reason, other than he still hates gay marriage.
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