Loving Day

Jan. 14, in Montgomery, Ala., newly elected Gov. George Wallace, a Democrat, stepped up to a podium to deliver his inaugural address."segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever,” The Governor wanted the South to rise again, and proudly wore the Confederate stripes on his newly pressed suit jacket and had perhaps his white robe and hood tucked away beneath his Brooks Brother shirt and suit pants. the Governor was doing God’s business, not any God of course but the Jesus God he believed did not create the Negro population with the same respect as the whites. The Jesus God who could, would and certainly should usurp any of the nonsense that the Founding Fathers may have faltered over when they foolishly decided that separation of Church and State made for a better democracy.

Today is a day known as Loving Day. Loving Day is an annual celebration held on June 12, the anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving V. Virginia which struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in 16 states citing "There can be no doubt that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central meaning of the equal protection clause.(Wikipedia). In June 1958,Mildred and Richard Loving returned to their home in Central Point, Virginia. Mildred was unaware, she said, of her state's "Racial Integrity Act," a 1924 law forbidding interracial marriage—After getting married in Washington, DC, in June 1958, just over a month after the Lovings' homecoming, police raided their place at 2 a.m., arrested the couple, and threw them in jail. Leon Bazile, a judge for the Caroline County Circuit Court, convicted them on felony charges. "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay, and red, and he placed them on separate continents," the judge wrote. "The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.”(Mother Jones) Once again Jesus had the power to decide the laws of the United States, and once again an official elected in a democratic nation refused to acknowledge the power of the Constitution preferring the bigotry of HIS Bible.

June 11, 2015 North Carolina’s Anti-Gay Marriage Bill passed as prominent majority of Christian Confederate T-Bagging Crusaders voted on a bill  that declares that protecting civil servants’ right to discriminate on the job is more important than anything else. All a magistrate need do under the bill is declare that she holds a religious objection to issuing a marriage license to a certain couple, and she can legally turn them away. (SLATE) Under this Christian nation-state bill, bigotry and bias trump Constitutional rights, equality and refuse to ignore what once was a standard of separation of Church and State. Now in the Christian nation-state known as North Carolina, you as a civil servant can recite your God’s racism or homophobia and deny the marriages of same-sex couples and interracial couples. Hate is alive in North Carolina and the Bible,not just any Bible but the one whose God is sure homosexuals and people of color are evil triumphs over something as passé as the Constitution. Smart people learn from history, the stupid never do.