Florida bill banning marriage with first cousin fails

If you love your first cousin so much that you want to marry them, there’s still a chance to do so in Florida.

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That’s because a house bill that would’ve banned marriage between first cousins did not pass.

Florida is one of 18 states in the United States of America where marrying your first cousin is perfectly legal, a fact that surprises residents and raises questions about whether such an act should be allowed.

The state of West Virginia banned the unholy union of cousins in 1955. Florida has yet to follow suit.

House Bill 733

It’s not known why House Bill 733, which would’ve banned cousin marriages, did not pass.

Several bills in Florida faced challenges as the state legislature experienced gridlock, failing to pass priorities such as a budget and decreases in property taxes.

Doug Schmidt, a resident of Cape Coral, Fla., told CNN : “It’s pretty unusual they would have that still in the state. It should have been banned many years ago.”

“I can’t understand why you wouldn’t take action just to get it off the legislation,” said Schmidt.

Famous people who have married their cousins

Some notable people who have had wedded bliss with their cousins include theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, who married Elsa Löwenthal, who is both his first cousin on his mother’s side and second cousin on his father’s; and former U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt, his fifth cousin removed. Cousin marriage accounts for about 250,000 unions in the U.S., CNN reported. The practice is allowed in some countries, such as those in the Middle East and North Africa.

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