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How Arguments Against Gay Marriage Mirror Those Against Miscegenation
North Carolina became the last southern state to adopt a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Tuesday, and like its fellow southern states, it has a long history with regulating marriages. The last time the state amended its constitution to regulate marriage, it was to ban miscegenation, Think Progress tweets (pictured at left). And just like in the bad old days, the southerners can ...
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What Straight Allies Need to Understand About Gay Marriage and States' Rights
The fight for gay marriage rights is not like the fight against anti-miscegenation laws. It's more like the fight for divorce law liberalization, and that's why it needs to stay a state issue.
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Miscegenation, Fornication, and Onanism Have Replaced the American Family [Trendwatch]
# trendwatch All you need to know about the very latest trends here in the American Dream of USA of America™ is this: love is dead, marriage is an anachronism, the family has disintegrated, and all is chaos. But we're making good racial progress! More »
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Editorial Board: President Obama’s welcome support of gay marriage
“THE FREEDOM TO MARRY has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.” So wrote Chief Justice Earl Warren in the 1967 ruling in Loving v. Virginia , the landmark case declaring unconstitutional the anti-miscegenation laws on the books in 16 states. Among those whose parents’ interracial marriage would have been illegal in ...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson likens gay marriage push to fight over slavery
The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Thursday praised President Obama's decision to support same-sex marriage, comparing the battle for such unions to the fight against slavery and anti-miscegenation laws intended to keep blacks and other ethnicities from mingling and marrying with whites.
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The marriage amendment, 1875
If Amendment One passes on Tuesday, it won’t be North Carolina’s first constitutional provision regulating marriage. In 1875, we altered our charter to declare that “all marriages between a white person and a Negro or between a white person and a person of Negro descent to the third generation inclusive are, hereby, forever prohibited.”
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In the most predictable demographic revolution ever, the Census Bureau reported that nonwhite babies now make up a majority of all births. This shift was inevitable as long as the basic architecture of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act remained in place.
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A big step in the struggle for equal marriage rights
Barack Obama has finally come out. He has revealed what his critics and his supporters alike have long suspected: that he’s no longer a closeted supporter of same-sex marriage.
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Viewpoints: Arguments against same-sex marriage sound too familiar
Ascribe whatever facile coating you wish to President Barack Obama's announcement last week in support of gay marriage. It's historically noteworthy – no sitting president has ever endorsed gay marriage – but politically, it's ultimately irrelevant.
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Another view: Obama's Welcome Evolution
The following editorial appeared in Thursday's Washington Post:
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