Those who aren’t in favor of gay marriage have always stated that this can be the beginning of something worse. Just 30 years ago, it was illegal to commit adultery or to marry a person of the same gender. It was even illegal for a man to sleep with another man in a lot of cities. Now, adultery isn’t a big deal and people are marrying anyone or anything they want. Well, some people think that we’re headed in that direction.
The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that a man can marry his half-sister’s daughter in a landmark decision.
According to the ruling, while “parent-child and brother-sister marriages . . . are grounded in the almost universal horror with which such marriages are viewed . . . there is no comparably strong objection to uncle-niece marriages.”
The case revolved around a 34 year old Vietnamese citizen Huyen Nguyen, 34, who appealed to a ruling by an immigration judge declaring that her marriage in 2000 in Rochester was invalid. This ruling would have resulted to her deportation from the United States. Her husband, Vu Truong, 38, was her mother’s half-brother. According to the couple’s lawyer, Michael Marscalkowski, the case was not done for immigration purposes. The couple has stayed together for more than 14 years and husband Vu Truong works as a truck driver. They have no children together.
“This really was an all-or-nothing issue for them,” Marscalkowski commented. “If this would have been denied, she would have been deported and sent back to Vietnam.”
Marscalkowski said he won the case by focusing on the statutory provisions of the state’s domestic-relations law.
The statute provided that “a marriage is incestuous and void whether the relatives are legitimate or illegitimate between either: 1. An ancestor and a descendant; 2. A brother and sister of either the whole or half-blood; 3. An uncle and niece or an aunt and nephew.”
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