Marriage Licenses invented to prevent interracial unions, why do we allow the same discrimination to persist?

18. February 2010, 18:53 UhrPoliticsjackies9 comments
C.S. asked:


http://hnn.us/articles/4708.html

With this history of marriage licenses being used to prevent interracial marriages, why do we allow the same discourse and type of discrimination to persist? Will opponents today be judged like the racial purity folks of the past? Isn’t this why we should always error on the side of individual freedom in personal affairs?

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9 comments:

  1. successful relationships, 22. February 2010, 4:37

    because it will always exist…since it always has.

     
  2. romantic quotes, 22. February 2010, 21:51

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    Because cons hate being schooled by gays.

     
  3. successful relationships, 24. February 2010, 11:39

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    So, you’re saying that we should allow brothers and sisters to marry? Because, among other things, the marriage licensing laws currently prohibit incestuous marriage.

    To JW Boomer (below) ~ Interracial marriage is allowed in all 50 of the United States.

     
  4. , 27. February 2010, 13:50

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    I agree. The bottom line is, does anyone really care what two strangers do with their lives?

     
  5. , 2. March 2010, 6:30

    Marriage licenses were invented to get more money out of us, that’s the main reason—they license everything that moves and everything that doesn’t. Same with taxes.

    However, marriage license were used at times to prevent interracial marriages, and also others from getting married.

    This is somewhat of a dead issue, as interracial relationships and marriage are widely accepted today, but there are some people who will never change, and don’t approve of it.

    I guess that they’ll just have to deal with it.

     
  6. , 4. March 2010, 18:07

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    That’s funny. I thought marriage licenses were invented to establish property and paternity in a marriage. Your writer is moving history to establish the bias of the article.

     
  7. successful relationships, 4. March 2010, 19:41

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    Homosexuality is an abnormal relationship/behavior. Someones ethnicity is anything but abnormal.

     
  8. , 8. March 2010, 5:14

    some states allow it. some states don’t allow interracial marriage.gay marriage is out in most all states.

     
  9. Irresistible to Men, 8. March 2010, 13:37

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    Nanny-state cons want to control peoples’ lives from cradle to grave.

     

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