Seems I was prescient:
Interracial couple denied marriage license in La.Ah, yes - for the children's sake!
By MARY FOSTER, Associated Press Writer
15 Oct 2009
NEW ORLEANS – A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
Correct me if I'm wrong: I believe anti-miscegenation laws were found unconstitutional by SCOTUS back in 1967 (Loving v. Virginia).
I guess Louisiana wasn't included in the decision.
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