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🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is Molly Hemingway, encouraging you to listen to my favorite podcast, issues, etc. |
0:07.3 | Every day you get in-depth interviews with host Todd Wilkin asking expert guests, substantive, thought-provoking questions on all of the important news and issues of our day. |
0:18.7 | The expert guests are in culture, law, ethics, philosophy, theology, |
0:23.1 | and apologetics. Expert guests? Expansive topics. Always extolling Christ. Issues, etc. For a long time in our country, the issue of marrying too close within the family has not really been an issue. |
0:47.6 | Incest, of course, is illegal. |
0:50.0 | And there are many places where the next circle out, say a first cousin, a marriage there would be illegal as well. |
0:56.5 | But there are places like Delaware where they're reconsidering laws against first cousin marriage. |
1:02.6 | It has a lot to do with immigration, a particular Muslim and Arab immigration into the U.S. |
1:08.1 | Welcome back to issues, et cetera. |
1:10.0 | I'm Todd Wilkin, |
1:12.9 | joining us to talk about first cousin marriage, |
1:13.9 | Dr. Scott Yenner, |
1:15.2 | professor of political science at Boise State University, |
1:17.0 | senior director of state coalitions |
1:18.7 | at the Claremont Institute's Center |
1:20.7 | for the American Way of Life, |
1:22.3 | author of the book, |
1:23.1 | The Recovery of Family Life, |
1:24.4 | exposing the limits of modern ideologies, |
1:26.6 | and a recent column titled |
1:28.4 | Why Every State Should Ban First Cousin Marriage. Dr. Yenner, welcome back. |
1:33.7 | Thanks for having me. Tell us about a bill that's being debated in the Delaware legislature. |
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