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The U.S. Supreme Court essentially legalized interracial marriage across the country in 1967, but a majority of Americans didn't approve of it until the 1990s. Since the majority opposed it, should it have remained illegal until then?
It's pure Racism and always was. As a US soldier I had to live on base because my wife was asian.
Why should the Government enforce someone else's beliefs
Why should the Government enforce someone else's beliefs
Obviously, lots of people believe strongly that the government should be involved in marriage. Witness the fervor in which they want the government to not only ban same-sex marriage, but to have a federal amendment to the Constitution to prevent it.
I always find these kings of polls to be humerous and the level of hypocrisy generally becomes clear and evident. The people who sit around quoting polls and approval numbers all day long, as if our legislators should always vote along those "popular" lines. Then you have people who pretend that even the constitution itself is meaningless and should be ignored or reinterpreted along the lines of what the ruling majority want(healthcare, social security, civil rights, etc), who will come in here in these polls talking about constitutionality this or freedom that, as if they really care about the constitution(other than when it suits them).
The truth is, politics are nothing but a game that both sides play against each other to get elected. They really don't care that much about you or me or the constitution. Both parties ignore the constitution or attempt to interpret it any way they see fit for their own benefit. It is really pathetic that we play this game, but Americans love it, its a massively expensive spectactle every 4 years, even the rest of the world gets involved(especially with this new corporate personhood thing).
As for my opinion about interracial marriage. I just want to say that having multiple races on earth serves absolutely no purpose or benefit to humanity. The existence of multiple races is harmful and distracting to any actual advancement of human civilization and equality. This is something that is incurable until there is actual equality, which can only come from mixing and interracial mixing until all the people of Earth are roughly the same overall race, which goes against any concept of any actual benefit of diversity(there is no actual functional benefit to diversity, none).
human rights for minorities should not be put up to a public vote. That's called the "tyranny of the Majority" and Madison had some choice words to say about it.
Obviously, lots of people believe strongly that the government should be involved in marriage. Witness the fervor in which they want the government to not only ban same-sex marriage, but to have a federal amendment to the Constitution to prevent it.
That doesn't change it. The same hypocrites that want small government want to become the Taliban and enforce their own moral code
The U.S. Supreme Court essentially legalized interracial marriage across the country in 1967, but a majority of Americans didn't approve of it until the 1990s. Since the majority opposed it, should it have remained illegal until then?
The U.S. Supreme Court essentially legalized interracial marriage across the country in 1967, but a majority of Americans didn't approve of it until the 1990s. Since the majority opposed it, should it have remained illegal until then?
Since skin color is not something you can choose, and it is not a moral issue, I don't know why it would be illegal. It certainly doesn't harm anyone else so it's not against the greater good of society.
Having said that, the founding fathers did believe that the states should be able to determine stuff like that. I'm not saying any state would have been right to do so, but they were supposed to be able to legislate for themselves. I just don't think they believed marriage to be a federal issue.
Even though people don't oppose interracial marriage these days like they used to, they do have a hard time wrapping their head around the idea. I can't tell you how many people thought my wife was working for me.
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