And while I'm at it...

Today, US Republican senator Mike Braun of Indiana said that the Supreme Court was wrong to overturn the ban on interracial marriage in 1967.

Braun specifically said the Supreme Court should have left abortion and interracial marriage to the states. He said it was wrong to legalize interracial marriages nationwide.

And unsurprisingly he says this while evaluating the candidacy of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson who herself is in an interracial marriage. Mind you this is the Republican Party that had two members of the house speak at white nationalist conferences in the last month. A party whose current leader calls nazis “very fine people”.

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bijouxbroussard · F

Yes, another poster was discussing this.
Makes me wonder if the GOP’s forgotten that their fellow, Clarence Thomas, is also interracially married, especially since black man/white woman couples have been especially distasteful to those people. Thomas, who was a dissenter of Obergefell v. Hodges (marriage equality), is clearly clueless about where he fits in.

Randi1125 · 31-35, F

@bijouxbroussard

I was wondering the same thing.

Just imagine believing that states have a right to decide whether or not a black person and white person can marry. What is happening???

I eventually had to turn the confirmation hearing off. It was infuriating.

Docdon23 · M

@Randi1125 So much for their stated belief in freedom and the government staying out of personal lives...hypocrites.

bijouxbroussard · F

@Docdon23 Indeed ! They want "smaller government", all right—small enough to fit in people’s bedrooms and women’s uteruses. 🤨

MildlyInappropriate · 56-60, M

PERFECTLY STATED!! @bijouxbroussard

bijouxbroussard · F

@Randi1125 And this isn’t new, of course, states did demand that right until Loving v. Virginia. The "land of the free" allowed states to interfere in the most personal life decisions of their citizens. And the GOP’s trying to take us back there. People were laughing when I said they’d take us back to Jim Crow if they could. But here we go. Ron Paul also said he wouldn’t have passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that stopped states from being able to have "whites only" schools, businesses, hospitals, churches, etc. even though it was ruled that "separate but equal" wasn’t. And it was unconstitutional.

Docdon23 · M

@bijouxbroussard I was going to add that myself!! Intrude in lives when it is THEIR interpretation of morality...including in women's bodies and in our bedrooms...