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Posted by Nilet on Mon Apr 7 16:41:44 2014, in response to Re: This Actually Happened In America Today, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Apr 7 16:26:33 2014. No it won't as your reasoning is faulty. This law does not trump federal law. It doesn't allow for anything that is already illegal, regardless of "religious belief".I'm not sure how I can make this any clearer. This law will make it legal in practice to discriminate based on race. It does not trump the federal law against racial discrimination, but it makes that law meaningless and unenforceable by giving racists a means to turn away all black people without officially discriminating based on race. The equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment forbid discrimination based on race, but Jim Crow states banned blacks from voting— not by declaring the amendment invalid or passing laws that "trumped" it, but by passing laws that forbid blacks from voting in practice but didn't "technically" discriminate, such as by declaring that all people, regardless of race, are not allowed to vote unless they pass an impossible test or pay an exorbitant poll tax, unless their grandfather was permitted to vote. (That being the origin of the term "grandfather clause.") Officially, this law did not discriminate against black people; it merely defined the voting requirements in a racially neutral way that made no reference to pigmentation whatsoever. That it just happened to ban almost all black people from voting without any restrictions on white people was "entirely coincidental" as far as federal law was concerned. LOL!!! No "we" haven't. YOU made that determination, based on a few sentences I posted to play with you, as you claimed I was a "right wing nut. So you lied about what you believed? |
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