{"id":118069,"date":"2017-10-16T12:45:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T20:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=118069"},"modified":"2017-10-16T12:45:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T20:45:26","slug":"ny-state-blesses-incest-marriage-between-uncle-niece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=118069","title":{"rendered":"NY State blesses \u2018incest\u2019 marriage between uncle, niece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/10\/29\/new-york-state-blesses-incest-marriage-between-uncle-niece\/\">New York Post 2014<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s highest court has toppled a cultural taboo \u2014 legalizing a degree of incest, at least between an uncle and niece \u2014 in a unanimous ruling.<\/p>\n<p>While the laws against \u201cparent-child and brother-sister marriages .\u2009.\u2009. are grounded in the almost universal horror with which such marriages are viewed .\u2009.\u2009. there is no comparably strong objection to uncle-niece marriages,\u201d Tuesday\u2019s ruling reads.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Robert Smith of the Court of Appeals wrote that such unions were lawful in New York until 1893 and Rhode Island allows them.<\/p>\n<p>The decision stems from a case brought by Vietnamese citizen Huyen Nguyen, 34, a woman who had appealed a ruling by an immigration judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post 2014: The state\u2019s highest court has toppled a cultural taboo \u2014 legalizing a degree of incest, at least between an uncle and niece \u2014 in a unanimous ruling. While the laws against \u201cparent-child and brother-sister marriages .\u2009.\u2009. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=118069\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42698],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118070,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118069\/revisions\/118070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}