New Mexico 'passport'? Confused marriage license clerk doesn't believe southwestern state is in US

Fox News ^ | 11/30/2018 | Kaitlyn Schallhorn

[DFG]

A New Mexico resident didn’t just have to prove his love before getting married – he had to prove New Mexico is actually a state.

When Gavin Clarkson and his future bride applied for a marriage license in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, he was told he needed to provide an international passport to be approved.

A New Mexico resident didn’t just have to prove his love before getting married – he had to prove New Mexico is actually a state.

When Gavin Clarkson and his future bride applied for a marriage license in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, he was told he needed to provide an international passport to be approved.

[lastchance]

Isn’t that cultural appropriation?

[old gringo]

i had this happen to me back in the 80s pa. highway patrol said my nm. drivers licence were from a forgin country.

[lastchance]

Yes, I know. If you go to Quebec you pass through two foreign countries. Or at least that is the way Quebecois would have it.

[Red Badger]

He may have been closer to the truth than you think...............

[June2]

Once heard an engineering contractor working on the Space Shuttle program say that the shuttle had to continuously fire its engines to stay in orbit. You just have to shake your head in wonderment/bewilderment.

[ASOC]

Now I do.

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[gnarledmaw]

People are amazingly ignorant about our own country. Experienced the NM/foreign country thing with the post office some years back. I also used to have a vaguely similar problem explaining where I was stationed in Michigans UP because, “I didn’t know our military had bases in Canada.”

[gnarledmaw]

Years ago I could almost understand it happening occasionally when dealing with stupid people but today a person doesn’t need any kind of education to check a fact like this. Kids with todays smartphones will jump online in a second for “important” things like finding Kim Kardashians butt measurement yet in the course of a serious conversation will just sit there and argue with someone else.