The original defense of marriage amendment

Oh, those liberals, at it again with their historicizing and comparisons of intolerance to intolerance. More importantly, and more convincingly, there’s an NYT editorial discussing the first constitutional amendment defending marriage:

“Representative Seaborn Roddenberry of Georgia proposed an amendment that he said would uphold the sanctity of marriage. Mr. Roddenberry’s proposed amendment, in December 1912, stated, ‘Intermarriage between Negroes or persons of color and Caucasians . . . is forever prohibited.’ He took this action, he said, because some states were permitting marriages that were ‘abhorrent and repugnant,’ and he aimed to ‘exterminate now this debasing, ultrademoralizing, un-American and inhuman leprosy.'”

I wonder if discussion of this issue in certain elementary schools is legal, or if it constitutes the “teaching of homosexuality.”

Viva

I’m back. No real surprises to the lessons I’ve learned in Sin City: the house always wins, and the death of a relative or hotel guest is never convenient. Also, even if it’s very nice Champagne, it can still give you a wicked hangover.