Interracial couple denied marriage license. In 2009. WTH?

[terriko]

terriko : Did you see this? It's just... wow. Link to article
miko : Shit, I guess we're miserable!
terriko: and shouldn't exist.
miko: But because we do, our lives must be awkward and terrible and not worth living.
miko: Oh well, at least they got press and will be able to get him out of office.

Seriously, WTH? As someone who is (a) biracial and (b) an actual person, I'm more than a little appalled.

Comments

Louisiana

[(Anonymous)]

This appears to have happened in Louisiana and is thus---unfortunately---not particularly surprising. There are segments of Louisiana's society that viewed the consequence of hurricane Katrina with some amount of relief, believe it or not---it reduced the proportion of "undesirables" in New Orleans, for one thing.

Interracial dating and marriage is still a sensitive issue in much of the US South, some of which only decriminalized it in the late 60s, and things change "on the ground" very slowly in parts of the South which deeply resent social change they feel have been foisted on them against their will. It was/is a ritual among right-wing presidential candidates to visit Bob Jones University which did have (and probably still has) a policy officially discouraging interracial dating, on the grounds that God created races as part of His plan for humanity, and "race mixing" was an act of disobedience to said plan.

So you still have people in Louisiana who think it's acceptable to deny a mixed-race couple a marriage license as though it were their business.

Re: Louisiana

[(Anonymous)]

Signed, Asad

Re: Louisiana

[terriko]

Yeah, but there's lots of things that aren't really that surprising that still fall under "WTF"