Posted by
The Old Whig on Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:41:13 PM
That is the implication of an
article by Travis Loller of the Associated Press today.
The article discusses how some immigrants are unable to get a marriage
license in Nashville, Tennessee because of a 10 year old federal law
that requires marriage applicants to have a social security number.
The article includes the obligatory complaints from people attempting
to marry illegal aliens, illegal aliens trying to marry one other, and
people who claim that marriage is a constitutional right (though such a "right' appears nowhere in the Constitution).
An explanation of why this constitutes important news is missing from
the article, unless one assumes from the article that
if only we had passed that Immigration Reform Bill, these poor people
would be able to get social security numbers and would have been able
to marry.
Which then logically leads to the next assumption, e.g. since it was
Conservatives who blocked that bill, it's their fault these people are being denied marital bliss.
But the writer doesn't explain how said bliss is being denied to Jonadad Luque, since he is obviously already living with his girlfriend "with whom he has two children."
I don't know...maybe I'm just reading too much into this story.
Nah.