Should interracial marriages be allowed?

[Sir Coffeebeans]

Did you just mean what I thought you meant? I hope you didn't.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I don't know what you thought you meant, but to make it clearer what I mean, I have no objection to dogs marrying dogs or cats marrying cats, but while dogs should not marry cats, I have no objections to poodles marrying chihuahuas or calicoes marrying tabbies.

[Sir Coffeebeans]

Please extend that analogy to humans to promote clarity.

[Psychic Octopus]

wow. Fcukin' rascists on this forum.

[Sir Coffeebeans]

I really am trying to hope that is not what he meant, but I am starting to feel the same. I don't have anything against jokes, but personal attacks go way too far.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Coffeebeans, you're the one trying to twist my literal words into something else.  All I meant was the literal interpretation of my words.

[A18]

Coffeebeans: Think about the phrase "human race" for a few seconds, and then go re-read Ernest's post.

[Sir Coffeebeans]

I understand, I just wished I didn't, that's all.

[TeePee4Prez]

Change of answer, well not so much answer because it's still yes, but I have to say I don't like the concept in SOME cases.  Sometimes it's a black guy trying to take advantage of a naive white girl who wants to get back at the world and I'm seeing black guys doing the same things to white girls that they do to their own.  I know.. generalization and it's not all blacks, but I tend to see it a lot.

[dead0man]

k...but some white dudes shouldn't marry white women either.  Bad spouses are bad spouses regaurdless of race, religion or political positions.

[Sir Coffeebeans]

All you are saying is that there are marriages just made to make a statement, and that is done within the same race too.

[Psychic Octopus]

Yes.

[Franzl]

If I had a daughter I wouldn't allow it but at the same time I don't want the Government interfering in people's personal matters.

And tell me....how would you "not allow" your adult daughter to marry the person of her choosing? It's not like you'd have any legal authority over her.

[The Mikado]

Eh...so long as it isn't incestuous, a person should marry whatever consenting adult unmarried person s/he deems proper.

[Sir Coffeebeans]

If I had a daughter I wouldn't allow it but at the same time I don't want the Government interfering in people's personal matters.

I feel sorry for your daughter, not being allowed to marry who she chooses.

If I had a daughter I wouldn't allow it but at the same time I don't want the Government interfering in people's personal matters.

And tell me....how would you "not allow" your adult daughter to marry the person of her choosing? It's not like you'd have any legal authority over her.

Agreed.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Eh...so long as it isn't incestuous, a person should marry whatever consenting adult unmarried person s/he deems proper.

Define incestuous.  Different societies and religions have had different rules for how close is too close to be married.

[JSojourner]

Wow, someone actually voted no. That's sad.

A lot have.  Sickening.

It should be allowed and encouraged.

[Torie]

Wow, someone actually voted no. That's sad.

A lot have.  Sickening.

It should be allowed and encouraged.

Well I just voted "yes."   Who knew? 

Of course, I want the option to marry anyone I want, or not.  I don't like being fenced in. So some of it might be just my own selfishness.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Yes (R).  I accidentally hit No, but didn't hit the back button in time. 

[k-onmmunist]

Interracial marriage shouldn't be encouraged any more than non-interracial marriage, they should be treated in exactly the same way.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Eh...so long as it isn't incestuous, a person should marry whatever consenting adult unmarried person s/he deems proper.

What's wrong with incestuous marriages?

[Verily]

Eh...so long as it isn't incestuous, a person should marry whatever consenting adult unmarried person s/he deems proper.

What's wrong with incestuous marriages?

There's some level at which it is difficult to disentangle familial power relationships to get a valid statement of consent. Cousin marriages are clearly fine. Sibling marriages are a gray zone..

Parent-child and aunt/uncle-niece/nephew marriages strike me as being too likely to have family coercion in there to have legally valid consent. If I had to draw the line, it would be to ban cross-generational incestuous relationships. Even there, some strangeness goes on, since aunts and uncles can be of a similar age to nieces and nephews, whereas siblings can be very far apart in age or have a power relationship stronger than anything cross-generational in some rare circumstances.

Ultimately, it's about consent, and how certain you can be that consent is legitimate. I would like to say that case-by-case evaluations would solve the problem, but that's too arbitrary for the law to accept.