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Oh, okay.

This is Kentucky.

And this is, I love Kentucky because, well, lawyers get paid in sides of bacon and a lot of general lawyers.

And it's just fun.

I don't know if you've ever seen Catch a Mockingbird.

It's much like that, Atticus Finch.

Okay, now, here it is in kentucky and uh kentucky uh is passing a law

regarding incest they're sort of redoing their law and so there's a kentucky state

representative who introduced the law sort of restating uh whatest is, and he's backtracking.

You know, why?

Because there was a list of familial relationships that were outlawed, and are outlawed.

As I said, they're really bringing down the definitions.

And here is what he did. He removed by mistake. He says the word cousin. I mean, heretofore,

you couldn't stoop your cousin in Kentucky, which I think is, I always thought your brother or sister was fine but I guess not so the proposal would add language to the existing laws barring sexual intercourse between family members to include quote sexual contact quote deviant acts that that may not fall under previous law. So the initial proposal that

when instruct the word first cousin from a list of individuals that would be considered family

members. And he intended to put in cousins.

Now, he did put in parents and siblings and grandparents and great-grandparents and grandchildren.

All of your step in your great-grandparent. That's a whole other issue.

Great-grandparents, grandchildren, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, ancestors, descendants, family pets, barnyard animals

are all considered incest. Oh, maybe not the last. And he said, oh, he made a mistake. And so he is

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