Wednesday, October 8, 2008

LGBT HISTORY: It's happened before... and failed.

In 1912, the Anti-Miscegenation Amendment was introduced which read:

"Intermarriage between negros or persons of color and Caucasians... within the United States... is forever prohibited."

This was around the time the first states were allowing for interracial marriage -- i.e., miscegenation, which was first approved in Massachusetts in 1913.

Does this sound familiar?

"Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman."
See, bigots have always tried to limit marriage based on their pre-existing notions of what marriage should and should not be.

Silly bigots.

2 comments:

valereee said...

You have to wonder just how gays being able to marry can possibly 'threaten' traditional marriage. Like my husband's going to suddenly decide he'd rather be married to a guy once it's all legal? Not so much, according to him.

Barry Floore said...

Is he cute?

I mean, right. That's exactly the point. LOL