By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:58:00 +0000

Isn't the Pro 8 case identical to the Loving v. Virginia case?Re: Loving v. VirginiaNPR (2007): "Loving Decision: 40 Years of Legal Interracial Unions"[…] On June 12, 1967, the nation's highest court voted unanimously to overturn the conviction of Richard and Mildred Loving, a young interracial couple from rural Caroline County, Va.That decision struck down the anti-miscegenation laws — written to prevent the mixing of the races — that were on the books at the time in more than a dozen states, including Virginia.'They Just Were in Love'Richard Loving was white; his wife, Mildred, was black. In 1958, they went to Washington D.C. – where interracial marriage was legal – to get married. But when they returned home, they were arrested, jailed and banished from the state for 25 years for violating the state's Racial Integrity Act. To avoid jail, the Lovings agreed to leave Virginia and relocate to Washington.For five years, the Lovings lived in Washington, where Richard worked as a bricklayer. The couple had three children. Yet they longed to return home to their family and friends in Caroline County. That's when the couple contacted Bernard Cohen, a young attorney who was volunteering at the ACLU. They requested that Cohen ask the Caroline County judge to reconsider his decision."They were very simple people, who were not interested in winning any civil rights principle," Cohen, now retired, tells Michele Norris."They just were in love with one another and wanted the right to live together as husband and wife in Virginia, without any interference from officialdom. […]Read: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor…Just replace the phrase *interracial unions* with *same-gender-loving (SGL) unions* and to me it's virtually the SAME case. Is it not?

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