If they tried to amend the constitution to stop Blacks from marrying each

[bobweaver]

other, or if they tried to amend the constitution to prevent Jews from marrying each other, or if they tried to amend the constitution to prevent vegetarians from marrying each other, what would the response be?

[ermoore]

1. Well . . .

. . . it wouldn't be anything like the response to banning homosexuals from marrying.

[Warpy]

3. Sure it would

Scratch a Repuglican true believer, find somebody who thinks Jim Crow laws were a great idea and those segregated facilities made everybody a lot happier.

[ck4829]

2. I'm white and I would make sure that never happens

My girlfriend is a Somali, and one of the reasons why I oppose marriage amendments so much (besides just the Anti-GLBT hate that these proponents of the marriage amendments have) is that I have read about it used to be acceptable for the states to rule that it is illegal for a white person to marry a non-white person.

If that happened today I would be upset to no end.

[serryjw]

4. This is NOT ancient history!

Marriage of a white person with a Negro or mulatto or a person who shall have one-eighth or more of Negro blood is prohibited.


This South Carolina Law Was Not Repealed Until 1998. Alabama finally removed it's Ban on Interracial Marriage on November 8, 2000. In one rural Alabama country, (Washington), the voters actually rejected the proposition.

[ck4829]

5. I know

I am frightened because of this.

First they'll come and oppress the GLBT couples and then I am sure they will come after people like us.

Take Jerry Falwell. Today, he is 'defending' marriage. But, just a couple of decades ago, he was calling MLK a Communist and defending Segregation.

Everybody needs to stop believing the lies, and look at these so called 'defenders' of marriage.

[serryjw]

7. Nahhhhhhhh

They are just going after all middle class( Liberal) people regardless of whom you love!

[WMliberal]

6. it was already on most stae books until the middle of this century.

As well as intermarriage between the races.

[serryjw]

8. 1967 SCOTUS

overturned the ban on interracial marriage....BUT as stated above it took until 2000 for all states to agree

[WMliberal]

11. wow, thanks for being the walk, talking wikipedia

:yourock:

yeah, South Carolina was the last to comply. For once, my Virginia was not the least common denominator of America.

[serryjw]

13. Your welcome BUT

read above Alabama was the last in 2000! Can you belive that?

[serryjw]

14. Your welcome BUT

read above Alabama was the last in 2000! Can you beleive that?

[yurbud]

9. well, if you gave rush, o'reilly, and hannity a chance to sell it first...

[baldguy]

10. Vegitarians can't MARRY!

It's unnatural!

[LiberallyInclined]

12. none of the groups you mentioned are abominations in the eyes of god,

so why would anyone want to prevent them from marrying, and to what end?

Disclaimer- personally, I'm an atheist and therefore do not buy into the "abomination" thing...unfortunately the people who put the people in power into positions of power do, so it's their twisted thinking you have to be concerned with.