Marriage Equality

So since were talking about the history on Interracial marriage. This was part of my loving day speech. Information I had collected.

In the 1600’s interracial marriages were legal and there were many marriages as a result. In 1662 Maryland passed the first laws not on marriage but doubling the penalty for fornication of interracial unions than for mono-racial unions. In 1691 Virginia passed the first laws banning interracial marriage in the US.
All but 9 states had laws at some point banning whites from marrying blacks. Some states banned whites from marrying Asians, Filipino’s, Native Americans, and Indians. Georgia's laws prohibited whites from marrying any non white. Arizona prohibited multiracial people from marrying anyone. Maryland had laws prohibiting Filipino’s from marrying blacks. Louisiana and North Carolina banned blacks from marrying Native Americans. Oklahoma prohibited blacks from marrying any non black. In Texas many violators were sentenced to life in prison. In 1696 ministers were fined and forced to preach against interracial marriage or be deflocked.
In 1715 Maryland and Virginia passed laws condemning women who married across color line to 7yrs of bondage and 31 yrs of bondage for their children.

In 1881, Tony Pace an African American man and Mary Cox a white woman were arrested b/c their sexual relations violated Alabama law. They were charged for adultery and fornication and served 2 years of imprisonment. They appealed their conviction in 1883 and the Supreme Court upheld it declaring that the interbreeding of the two races a mongrel population and degraded civilization.
The first Supreme Court decision that overturned the laws on interracial marriage was in the California 1948 Perez v Sharp. A Mexican American woman and a black man were refused a marriage license b/c Hispanics were considered white due to their European Spanish heritage. But this victory was only for the state.
In the 1964 Supreme court case McLaughlin v. Florida the court ruled that the cohabitation law against different races of Florida was unconstitutional.
Finally in 1967 Loving v Virginia overturned the laws on interracial marriage for the remaining states. Richard was a white man and Mildred was black and Native American woman. They were married in 1958 in the District of Columbia were it was legal to get married and returned to Virginia only to be awoke in their bed. Arrested and sentenced to 1 yr imprisonment. They suspended the sentence on the condition they leave the state for 25 years. In 1963 the American Civil liberty Union filed a motion on their behalf in the state trial court and eventually made its way to the Supreme Court.
Thanks to the Loving decision, laws against interracial marriage were declared unconstitutional and interracial marriage became a part of our civil rights.

Today 1 in 7 marriages are to people of a different race or ethnic group. Rates of intermarriages among newlyweds in the U.S. more than doubled between 1980 (6.7%) and 2008 (14.6%).
According to the 2010 census there was 5.2 million people that identified as multiracial with millions uncounted. There was a 50% increase since 2000 making them now 5% of the US population. In Georgia there was an 81.7% increase from 2000. Make the multiracial populations 2% of Georgia. More than half of the multiracial population are children.

 

Well, you're probably right, but what do you think about homosexual interracial relationships?

 

Homosexual Interracial relationships are different from Heterosexual ones, different when they are Gay, when they are Lesbian...., Intersectionality would be the key concept here.

I support gay marriage, but to reiterate: these broad based comparisons between historically marginalized groups is expedient in a political advocacy that seeks common civil rights, but the history and social construction of a particular group is not necessarily similar because they are discriminated on one or several points; take suffrage as an example.

 

You're nitpicking. Either way you cut it, they are similar because of discriminatory practices and actions against them beyond that. We're all labeled in different categories, but that doesn't lessen the cause of equal rights at all. They all advocated for different reasons, but the completely drawn comparison was that they all were discriminated because of who they are.

 

Oh ok, I never knew that. Thanks for the knowledge.

 

I approve of gay marriage. Neither the government nor religion should have anything to do with who you love and who you marry (with obvious exceptions that idiots will always grab hold of to prove their idiotic points).

I'm sick of religion sticking it's big nose in where it doesn't belong (i.e. everywhere and in everything).

 

I agree completely. I haven't done much research into religion (not really interested in it) but this topic made me look into it and realize that there is a religious spin that's placed not in favor of both types of relationships. Most of the things appear to have happened during Supreme Court cases.

http://www.equalitygiving.org/files...t_Interracial_Marriage_and_Equal_Marriage.pdf

 

Major Breakthrough: NY Legalizes Gay Marriage

New York Has Legalized Gay Marriage!​

It's been a long time coming, but New York has finally done something that's a landmark for time to come. It's been through a lot of hurdles, but tonight, the LGBT community can finally gain some closure in the state of New York.

 

44 states to go

 

Sadly, the South isn't budging.

 

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Good news. I wish the same rights for my gay friends that I have.

 

Colorado legalized marijuana, yes?

 

not in conservative colorado,lol

 

No. I think I read they are trying to put it on the ballot next year.

 

Legalize prostitution, abortion, THC and decrease drinking age to 18.

 

generally i agree with you but then again there will a dramatic increase in drunk-driving accidents/murders if they did that.

 

Strange. I thought they did that last year. Or maybe it was Washington State that legalized medical marijuana.

I doubt decreasing the drinking age would increase drunkards. Maybe in the US, but I have my doubts.

 

They always take the longest but they will eventually. We need another supreme court case.

 

That won't help. We have conservative majority Supreme Court Judges and they are more likely to extend marriages to a person and the hand than two consenting adults of the same sex.