9th Circuit Court of Appeals: Still looney after all these years

[lucrezaborgia]

(02-10-2012 01:40 PM)myotch Wrote:  Not to many laws are coming forward regarding traditional marriage. It's all pretty much set in stone. Aside from so-called gay marriage, there aren't any changes to marriage laws that I'm aware of. And yeah, they are all pretty much traditional.

You added this later so I'm now commenting.

Miscegenation was removed in the 1960's.

First cousin marriage wasn't seen as a bad thing until the ideas of eugenics started making the rounds in the 1800's.

Polygamy was quite legal in Utah before being accepted into the Union as a state. The US government refused them entry unless they got rid of it and all of a sudden the Mormon Church had a divine revelation that it was wrong. *rolls eyes*

Then there are divorce, custody, property, and inheritance laws all based off of the rights of marriage. These change all the time.