“There was a time in our Country when interracial marriage was actually breaking the law. However, despite that despicable past – “we overcame.” It is inevitable that the same would be with the “Gay-Rights-Marriage-Issue.” Prejudice and Bigotry drove the interracial discrimination, the same as it is now with the Gay Rights Issues, and back then as it is now, “God and the Bible is the excuse for this wantonness of phantasmagoric rationales and internecine advocacies!”

The United States Supreme Court ended interracial marriage discrimination in a Land-Mark Case in 1967,

U.S.Supreme Court

Loving v.Virginia, 388U.S.1 (1967)

Loving v. Virginia

No. 395

Argued April 10, 1967

Decided June 12, 1967

388 U.S. 1

APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA

Syllabus

Virginia‘s statutory scheme to prevent marriages between persons solely on the basis of racial classifications held to violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Pp. 388 U. S. 4-12.

206 Va. 924, 147 S.E.2d 78, reversed.

http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/388/1/case.html

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