Yes, this segment from Bill Maher’s show was made in large part to amuse, but this is very real. According to a recent poll, roughly half the Republican voters in Alabama and Mississippi believe Obama is a Muslim (and that there’s a problem with that), and about one in every four believes his parents’ interracial marriage should have been illegal. 

Mississippi Rejects Personhood Amendment

thepoliticalnotebook:

Mississippi last night rejected Initiative 26, known as the “personhood amendment” that would have defined life as beginning with conception. It failed by vote of 58% to 42%… and based on interviews, there were some anti-abortion voters who still voted against it either because they felt the legislation was vague, strategically poor, or intrusive into what they felt should be a decision between husband and wife.

Read the stories at the Guardian and the New York Times.

motherjones:

Mississippi Republicans were asked whether interracial marriage should be legal. In 2011.

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