THE FACE OF HOMOPHOBIA & HATE SEAN HARRIS
Good question, Lawrence, WHO DO YOU THINK SEAN HARRIS WANTS HIS CONGREGATION TO VOTE FOR NEXT TUESDAY, MAY 8 IN THE NORTH CAROLINA PRIMARY?
THE FACE OF HOMOPHOBIA & HATE BRYAN FISCHER
*MITT ROMNEY WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON BRYAN FISHCER’S COMMENTS?
“NO WAY ROMNEY’S GOING TO PUT ANY HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST IN ANY POSITION OF IMPORTANCE IN YOUR CAMPAIGN”
Racist Eugenics: Alive and Well in NC
By Todd
Scholars have long drawn parallels between laws banning interracial and same-sex marriage. The conversation came full circle Monday morning when Jodie Brunstetter, wife of North Carolina Senator Peter Brunstetter (R), explained that her husband co-authored a recent piece of anti-same-sex marriage legislation to “protect the Caucasian race.” Brunstetter continued, “The reason my husband wrote Amendment 1 was because the Caucasian race is diminishing and we need to uh, reproduce.” Placing “race reproduction” at the center of her argument, Brunstetter advocates for a positive eugenics program, a central element of traditional anti-miscegenation statues.
Faced with increasing interracial contact in the late 19th century, whites turned to the pseudo-science of eugenics to justify racial segregation. Eugenicists argued that both the physical and character traits of individuals are biologically determined, and thus the genetic quality of society can be made better or worse through artificial selection. Whites were attracted to eugenics because they assumed the superiority of the white race and the importance of racial separation, but they feared, and eugenics proved “proof,” that interracial sex would result in future generations dominated by “inferior” racial characteristics. Thus, a positive eugenics program was required to guarantee the longevity of the white race. Central to this program, was legislating the prohibition of interracial intimacy. One of the most notable pieces of anti-miscegenation legislation is Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924.
Desiring to maintain the “racial integrity” of the nation as well as their dominant position, white Virginians once passed the Racial Integrity Act, a law forbidding whites from marrying anyone of another race. Limiting marriage to persons of the same race, the Virginia law sough to ensure the reproduction of the white race and prevent the “deplorable evil” of interracial sex.
http://www.racismreview.com/blog/