MA Judge: DOMA Unconstitutional

I know.. this story is EVERYWHERE ! Massachusetts judge rules that DOMA (Defense Of Marriage Act) violates or "offends" the US Constitution, particularly the 5th and 10th Amendments.

Celebrate today for this is the beginning... and tomorrow there will be an appeal. :(

By the way, here is an excerpt from a speech given by Seaborn Roddenberry, a US Representative from the State of Georgia, in congress on December 11, 1912 on creating a Federal Anti-Miscegenation Law, banning interracial marriage across the country, after the African American, heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson married a white woman:

"No brutality, no infamy, no degradation in all the years of southern slavery, possessed such villainious character and such atrocious qualities as the provision of the laws of Illinois, Massachusetts, and other states which allow the marriage of the negro, Jack Johnson, to a woman of Caucasian strain. [applause]. Gentleman, I offer this resolution ... that the States of the Union may have an opportunity to ratifty it. ... Intermarriage between whites and blacks is repulsive and averse to every sentiment of pure American spirit. It is abhorrent and repugnant to the very principles of Saxon government. It is subversive of social peace. It is destructive of moral supremacy, and ultimately this slavery of white women to black beasts will bring this nation a conflict as fatal as ever reddened the soil of Virginia or crimsoned the mountain paths of Pennsylvania. ... Let us uproot and exterminate now this debasing, ultra-demoralizing, un-American and inhuman leprosy"

Here's another gem...

On January 6th, 1959 a Virginia judge, Leon Bazile, after ruling AGAINST Richard and Mildred Loving (in the famous, interracial marriage case Loving vs. Virgina), declared the following:

"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."

These attitudes are almost identical to the same rhetoric, language, fear & ignorance based nonsense that NOM, AFA, FOTF, & the GOP spout everyday in regards to same sex marriage today. Bigots really do suffer from both short term and long term memory loss.