Louisiana law now requires foreign-born Louisianans — including naturalized citizens — to produce an unexpired visa (which violates federal law) as well as a birth certificate (which many refugees, shockingly enough, don't have access to).
Because you can't trust the sacred institution of holy matrimony to just anyone, amirite?
Louisiana isn’t letting immigrants get married
The state’s religious right has made marriage off-limits to foreign-born people without birth certificates — which means many refugees have been hurt.
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….what.
What the heck. Even I know about the large Laotian/Vietnamese community that settled there. Sorry, when they were running for their lives, birth certificates were the last thing they were thinking of packing.
Well, c'mon. Have they even tried being white?