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Interracial couple denied marriage license - proof the legal institution of marriage is oppressive
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Terence McKay and Beth Humphrey-McKay, an interracial couple, were denied a marriage license by a justice of the peace in Louisiana. The justice, Keith Bardwell, claimed that he was not racist, but did not believe in issuing marriage licenses to interracial couples. He said, "I have one problem with mixed race marriages and that is the offspring." See the full story here.
The McKays have since been married by someone else, but seek to have Bardwell removed from his position. Bardwell feels that he has done nothing wrong and refuses to apologize. He told CNN, "It's kind of hard to apologize for something that you really and truly feel down in your heart you haven't done wrong." At least he is honest.
Although the couple is now happily married, this situation is a perfect example of why the legal institution of marriage is oppressive and tyrannical. Whereas in more enlightened countries, marriage is the private contract between two people who love each other, in the United States, legal marriage has created all kinds of social injustices.
The marriage license system first arose because the government wanted to hinder interracial marriages, and keep track of those who were getting married to people of a different race.
It seems that not much has changed. In addition, legal marriage is now also used to discriminate against gays, and is essential to a discriminatory taxation system that taxes single people differently than married people.
If marriage were a private contract, the protections that exist in legal marriage would still stand as contractual agreements between two parties, but there would be no discrimination as to who can marry whom.
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