Justice o f the Peace and Social Engineering

The source article presents what many thought and hoped were a long past pattern of intolerance.

The basic point is that a Louisiana justice of the peace places his personal policy regarding interracial marriage above the law of the land.

In Loving v Virginia the United States Supreme Court ruled the "the government cannot tell people who they can and cannot marry."  Such an action violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, ruled the court.

The justice of the peace in this cases refuses to sign marriage licenses of interracial couples.  Based on the fact that he does not "believe in mixing races that way."  He further maintains according to the article  "that  experience has shown him that interracial children have led unnecessarily difficult lives because of the position their parents have put them in."

While he does not consider himself to be racist, he has certainly placed his personal social engineering philosophy above that of the US Constitution.

The ACLU has called on the Louisiana Judiciary Committee to investigate because "such blatant bigotry poses a threat of serious harm to the administration of justice."

Imposing such a personal philosophy certainly undermines the Loving decision.
The Fourteenth Amendment is possibly the greatest successful social engineering action in US history.  The actions of the justice of the peace are an attempt to reverse engineer the history of race relations. 

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