It's Deja Vu All Over Again

[ciroccoj]

More arguments against legalizing or treating as equal certain marriages:

• [Marriage] is a public institution established by God himself, is recognized in all Christian and civilized nations, and is essential to the peace, happiness, and well being of society.
  
  
• Such equality does not in fact exist, and it never can. The God of nature made it otherwise, and no human law can produce it, and no human tribunal can enforce it.
  
  
• "Our daily observation shows us that the offspring of these unnatural connections are generally sickly and effeminate, and that they are inferior in physical development and strength..."

The quotes are from Frasher v. State, 3 Tex. Ct. App. 263, 275 (1877), Scott v. State, 39 Ga. 321, 326 (1869), and Scott v. Georgia, 39 Ga. 321, 323 (1869) - all against interracial marriage. All quoted or appealed to the Bible, including

• 'Thou shalt not,' said Abraham, 'take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanities,'
  
  
• "... The laws of civilization demand that the races be kept apart in this country."
  
  
• "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay, and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix." [This last is from Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), quoted from the trial judge who convicted the Lovings of violating Virginia's ban on interracial marriages and sentenced them to 25 years probation on the condition that they not return to Virginia together for those 25 years.

Innerezding.

Comments

[bear.livejournal.com]

I love you.

That is all.

[bear.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's not all, b/c I just wanted to say how terribly cool I think your CRT class is. We spent a couple of weeks on it in my civil rights seminar, but an entire course devoted to it sounds fascinating.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

We spent a couple of weeks on it in my civil rights seminar, but an entire course devoted to it sounds fascinating.

It's amazing. The readings, the prof, the ideas - and then I get academic credit for it too! Bonus!

Don't know if you remember this, but you recommended it. I was trying to figure out what to take in my January term waaay back in September and you mentioned that you'd really liked CRT.

Thanks :)

[snarkhunter.livejournal.com]

Dude. That's awesome.

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Wow. The fact that these were real arguments people made againt inter-racial marriage just appauls me. And the fact that people are sounding mighty similar nowadays. And the frickin Bible...

Oh, btw, I'm "Narsil" from fanfiction.net.