Mass Senate repeals antimiscegenation law
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:08 pm
OK, I know the people who don't understand my simple sentences will write "What's Mass?" "What's Senate?" "What's miscegenation?".
So:
Mass is a state, as in -achusetts
Senate is a legislative body
miscegenation is "the mixing of the races".
The law in question was on the books from back in 1920-whatever, or maybe -teen whatever (I should check), saying that you couldn't marry in Mass(achusetts) if your marriage would not be legal in your home state. This was intended to keep brown or yellow or black or red colored people from marrying pinky-beige or light green colored people if their home state would consider the marriage illegal. This was being done as a creepy racist favor to the home states, as interracial marriage was not at the time illegal in Mass(achusetts).
Nowadays, its being used to ban out-of-state homosexual couples (whatever their body shade) from marrying in Mass(achusetts).
Relax, anti-gay-marriage fans, the Mass(achusetts) House (another legislative body) has to repeal this law too. But its a fair bet it will. Finally.
So:
Mass is a state, as in -achusetts
Senate is a legislative body
miscegenation is "the mixing of the races".
The law in question was on the books from back in 1920-whatever, or maybe -teen whatever (I should check), saying that you couldn't marry in Mass(achusetts) if your marriage would not be legal in your home state. This was intended to keep brown or yellow or black or red colored people from marrying pinky-beige or light green colored people if their home state would consider the marriage illegal. This was being done as a creepy racist favor to the home states, as interracial marriage was not at the time illegal in Mass(achusetts).
Nowadays, its being used to ban out-of-state homosexual couples (whatever their body shade) from marrying in Mass(achusetts).
Relax, anti-gay-marriage fans, the Mass(achusetts) House (another legislative body) has to repeal this law too. But its a fair bet it will. Finally.