{"id":29910,"date":"2013-03-30T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29910"},"modified":"2013-03-30T04:00:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T04:00:22","slug":"won%e2%80%99t-somebody-think-of-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29910","title":{"rendered":"Won\u2019t Somebody Think of the Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/explainer\/2013\/03\/gay_marriage_at_the_supreme_court_did_interracial_marriage_opponents_claim.html\" target=\"_blank\">Won\u2019t Somebody Think of the Children<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a><br \/>\n2013-03-27<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.brian_palmer.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Palmer<\/a><\/strong>, Slate&#8217;s Chief Explainer<\/p>\n<p><em>Do opponents of marriage equality always claim that they\u2019re merely worried about the kids?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During yesterday\u2019s oral arguments over the constitutionality of California\u2019s ban on gay marriage, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonin_Scalia\" target=\"_blank\">Justice Antonin Scalia<\/a> claimed that there is \u201cconsiderable disagreement among sociologists\u201d as to whether being raised by a same-sex couple is \u201charmful to the child.\u201d The lawyers arguing the case repeatedly brought up the landmark 1967 decision <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\">Loving v. Virginia<\/a><\/em>, which struck down interracial marriage bans. Did supporters of the ban argue that interracial marriage was harmful to children in that case, too?<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely. The state of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a> presented two arguments in support of its interracial marriage ban in 1967. The first was that the authors of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution explicitly stated that they did not intend to strike down anti-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> laws, which were common in the 19th century. <strong>The second argument was that interracial marriages were uniquely prone to divorce and placed undue psychological stress on children<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/explainer\/2013\/03\/gay_marriage_at_the_supreme_court_did_interracial_marriage_opponents_claim.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Won\u2019t Somebody Think of the Children Slate 2013-03-27 Brian Palmer, Slate&#8217;s Chief Explainer Do opponents of marriage equality always claim that they\u2019re merely worried about the kids? During yesterday\u2019s oral arguments over the constitutionality of California\u2019s ban on gay marriage, Justice Antonin Scalia claimed that there is \u201cconsiderable disagreement among sociologists\u201d as to whether being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,666,1467,8,394,20],"tags":[14210,7435],"class_list":["post-29910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-gaylesbian","category-law","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-brian-palmer","tag-slate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}