When Loving v VA reached Supreme Court in 1967, more than 70% of Americans disapproved of interracial marriage.
I'm just sayin' ...
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...which is strange, because, at the time of Loving v. Virginia, only 16 states had laws against racially mixed marriages.
ReplyDeleteAlways be wary of polls & statistics; they are generally based on who's printing the results and how the questions are presented.
ReplyDeleteOn a distantly related note, James Dobson wrote in 2004 that gay marriage will lead to cousins marrying, apparently unaware that cousin marriage is legal in roughly half of the states right now. Cousin marriage, worldwide, is generally considered to be "traditional," as well as Biblical. Outdated bad science appears to account for whatever negative image cousin marriage still has in the U.S. I doubt if there is any recent polling on this issue because it appears to be a non-issue. There is no talk of a constitutional ammendment banning cousin marriage.
ReplyDeleteDobson's argument that legalizing gay marriage could lead to legal and traditional heterosexual behavior seems a tad weak.
I understand that the pro-Prop 8 lawyers are maintaining that the fundamental issue is that marriage is about the propagation of children. My husband and I married when I was well past menopause -- does this mean that our marriage isn't legal in California?
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