Let's go all the way back. Way back to 1999 (interracial marriage)

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http://members.aol.com/ebonylvory/dividingus.html

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here is only one state in the country that still bans interracial marriage and, if the polls are right, a majority of Alabama voters will vote next year to repeal that statute.

But about a third of them are expected to vote against repeal, just as a third of South Carolinians voted unsuccessfully last year to keep their state's ban. Both states mirror the nation as a whole: Polls show that between a quarter and a third of us oppose the marriage of whites to blacks.

It is telling that most Alabamians opposed to interracial marriage identify themselves as evangelical Christians, according to a poll by the Alabama Educational Association. They say they believe that such relationships contravene the word of God.

Indeed, religion is among the most enduring rationales for the remaining opposition to interracial marriages. As outright racism - ''I don't like blacks'' or ''blacks are inferior'' - has become less pronounced publicly, and as statutes banning interracial marriage have been overturned, religious arguments against mixing the races are being called up in their place.
While evoking ''God's will'' may seem a more socially acceptable way to divide us, it's effect is the same. The words of state Representative Lanny Littlejohn of Spartenburg, S.C., capture the sentiment. Asked about interracial marriage, he responds: ''That's not what God intended when he separated the races back in the Babylonian days. The races would be a lot better off if they stuck with their own kind.
I been raised a Baptist all my life, and I guess that's exactly where it comes from. My family taught me that over the years, and that didn't take place during my upbringing, and therefore I don't espouse it.''
Beliefs such as Littlejohn's are not limited to Southern Baptists.

''It's a complex doctrine that can't be isolated in any one denominational strain,'' says Alan Callahan, a professor of theology at Harvard Divinity School and an ordained Baptist minister. ''It circulates within American evangelical religions; generally, it cuts a broad swath of religion in America.''

Any prohibitions - religious or otherwise - against interracial relationships would seem moot in 1999, 32 years after the US Supreme Court's landmark decision known as Loving v. Virginia. In the middle of the night on July 11, 1958, Richard Loving, who is white, and his African-American wife, Mildred, were rousted from their bed and arrested in Caroline County, Va.

Soon afterward a Virginia judge ruled their marriage illegal and added, ''Almighty God created the races ... and the fact that He separated the races showed that He did not intend for the races to mix.'' The Supreme Court ruled otherwise.

But today, three decades later, a sizable percentage of Americans continue to be skeptical about mixed marriages. A Washington Post poll conducted last summer revealed that 1 in 4 Americans still found marriages between blacks and whites ''unacceptable.''
That disapproval helps explain why only 1 percent of marriages nationwide are between whites and blacks - even as other ''mixes'' (between, say, Jews and non-Jews) account for about 4 percent of marriages. Measured another way, the pattern continues: The marriages of blacks to whites equaled 9 percent of all intermarried couples in 1998, while the marriages of Asians to whites equaled 19 percent, and Hispanics to whites, 52 percent.

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1. excuse me for my ignorance, but

I thought no State could ban this due to federal laws?

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2. Alabama legalized it in 2000 they were the last. And you see blacks

opposing gay marriage. This needs to be read by everyone, because its ironic.

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3. Thanks.