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Reality TV star-turned-pol pushes for legal first cousin marriage in Ky. before claiming error
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0:59Now PlayingA Kentucky pol who won the reality TV show “Survivor” raised eyebrows when he introduced legislation that would make it legal for people to have sex with their first cousins – and he later claimed the change was made by mistake.
Republican Rep. Nick Wilson went viral Tuesday after sponsoring House Bill 269, which removed “first cousins” from the list of relatives it is illegal for a person to have sex with, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.
Other relatives that remained in the statute about incest in the state include parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and siblings.
Wilson, who won the 37th season of the CBS show “Survivor: David vs. Goliath” in 2018, drew the attention of Eliza Orlins, a New York public defender who previously appeared as a contestant on “Survivor: Vanuatu” and “Survivor: Micronesia,” according to Newsweek.
he called the bill “truly insane” on social media, where she skewered the pol.
“Oh my God I’ve got some wild news…This news relates to David vs. Goliath winner of Survivor Nick Wilson, who then leveraged the fame he obtained from winning Survivor to run for Kentucky state legislator and got elected,” she said on X.
“Nick Wilson is not only supporting but has introduced a bill that would reclassify incest in the state of Kentucky to not include your own first cousin,” she said.
“Kentucky, like so many other places, is facing a lot of issues, and this is Nick’s top legislative priority,” Orlins said as she urged her followers to “reach out to anyone you know in Kentucky and tell them to flood his office [with phone calls] and make this story known.”
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