This week’s Monday has seen two cousins getting married in America after meeting and falling in love.

Metro UK has reported how a pair of first-cousins who fell head-over-heels in love traveled hundreds of miles from Utah to Colorado to get married. Michael Lee and his close relative Angie Lee traveled from their home in Eagle Mountain, Utah to Colorado tie the knot on Monday.

According to reports, their home state only allows cousins over the age of 65 to get married, but makes an exception for couples aged 55 if they can prove they are infertile.

Those rules are aimed at limiting the chances of children being born to first cousin parents with genetic abnormalities. First cousins share 12.5 per cent of their DNA, making them up to twice as likely to have a disabled child as a man and woman who aren’t closely related.

Michael and Angie finally got together last winter after 10 years apart, and say they are no longer worried about disapproval from their families. ‘We said OK this is crazy but we’re adults now, we’re single now, we’re just going to go for it and who cares what our family thinks,’ Angie told ABC4.

They are now petitioning for Utah to change its ‘antiquated’ laws so that other first-cousin couples can tie the knot. Those same rules mean their marriage is not considered valid in Utah.

Recalling how he first realized his love for Angie when they were kids, he said: ‘We were second grade. ‘I remembered I stopped her mother and said “I’m going to marry Angie.”
‘She said, “No, sorry you can’t, you can be friends.’

‘I’ve always felt that life wasn’t fair. ‘Why did the person I wanted to be with most, and who I had the most attraction to the most, the most natural feelings for, why’d you have to be my cousin?’ He added.

He continued: ‘No one I’ve ever been with will make me feel as perfect as she does. Her being my cousin and some of the responses is a small price to pay.’

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It is allowed in some places in Nigeria for the fact you are not marrying from your mum's side.

ARAB Moslems are fond of doing this and alot of Nigerian tribes practice it also.



my 2 cents

God's judgement will start in America no doubt but hellfire will obviously be sighted somewhere in Africa. I ain't gonna say Nigeria but...

Madness

MajorJeffery:
God's judgement will start in America no doubt but hellfire will obviously be sighted somewhere in Africa. I ain't gonna say Nigeria but...

you just said Nigeria

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

To me there is nothing wrong with it

In the olden days, cousins get married.
Now, Cousins get married in different parts of the world.
Some of una don bonk una cuzzo.

Striking resemblance

chai!! DarisGOD O..!!

they gon give birth to a potatoe

MrTrend:
Cousins Gets Marry, Shows Off Their Wedding Certificate

"Cousins Gets Marry" abi? Make una continue.

prettysassygirl:
To me there is nothing wrong with it

Babe why do you feel that there's nothing wrong with it?

I thought the VP- Prof Osinbanjo did same(distant cousin). Might be wrong though

The west is losing it fast. My biggest fear is that we Africans, being the photocopying machine that we are, will soon copy this.

We must not copy everything they do.

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Fulani did/do same