{"id":58871,"date":"2019-09-16T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58871"},"modified":"2019-09-16T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:22:28","slug":"virginia-couples-no-longer-have-to-disclose-race-on-marriage-license-applications-state-attorney-general-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58871","title":{"rendered":"Virginia couples no longer have to disclose race on marriage license applications, state attorney general says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virginia couples no longer have to disclose race on marriage license applications, state attorney general says<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2019-09-14<\/p>\n

Hannah Natanson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nSophie Rogers and Brandyn Churchill, who are getting married on Oct. 19, are shown in this engagement photograph in the Napa Valley. (Christophe Genty\/Christophe Genty Photography)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Virginia<\/a> will no longer require couples to identify by race on their marriage licenses, the state\u2019s attorney general announced this week.<\/p>\n

Under a new policy \u2014 which Attorney General Mark Herring<\/a> detailed in emails to court clerks and members of the media late Friday \u2014 people getting married will be able to select \u201cDeclined to Answer\u201d in a box asking about race. Herring also told clerks they must issue a marriage license \u201cregardless of an applicant\u2019s answer or non-answer to that inquiry.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new guidance comes about a week after three couples filed a federal lawsuit<\/a> alleging the required disclosure of race is unconstitutional because it violates the First<\/a>, 13th<\/a> and 14th amendments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were happy to help quickly resolve this issue and get these couples what they asked for,\u201d Herring said in his statement. \u201cThese changes will ensure that no Virginian will be forced to label themselves to get married.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under a new policy \u2014 which Attorney General Mark Herring detailed in emails to court clerks and members of the media late Friday \u2014 people getting married will be able to select \u201cDeclined to Answer\u201d in a box asking about race. Herring also told clerks they must issue a marriage license \u201cregardless of an applicant\u2019s answer or non-answer to that inquiry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,20,693],"tags":[30230,30227,30162,30257,30258,30228,2875,30231,2581],"class_list":["post-58871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-ashley-ramkishun","tag-brandyn-churchill","tag-hannah-natanson","tag-mark-herring","tag-rossie-d-alston-jr","tag-sophie-rogers","tag-the-washington-post","tag-victor-glasberg","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58871","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=58871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58874,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58871\/revisions\/58874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}