Interracial Marriage as a Precedent for a Gay Marriage Decision

The Lovings were indicted and pleaded guilty. They were sentenced to a year in jail: The state's law didn't just ban interracial marriage; it made such marriage ...

Take a look back at the history of interracial and same-sex marriages

Interracial marriage was made legal in the 1967 Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia. Mildred Loving, a woman of color, and her white ...

Federal Law Recognizing Same-Sex, Interracial Marriages Under ...

8404, known as the Respect for Marriage Act, into law, guaranteeing marriage equality for same-sex and interracial couples under federal law.

Respect for Marriage Act secures marriage equality – what it means ...

Same-sex marriage is protected throughout the U.S., and at the Federal level, by Supreme Court decisions that are still the law of the land. The Respect for ...

Calling Out Heterosexual Supremacy: If Obergefell Had Been More...

Virginia,' the Supreme Court invalidated state laws that banned interracial marriage. Nearly fifty years later, in Obergefell v. Hodges, 2 the Supreme Court ...

Where is the Justice? A Fight for Same-Sex Marriage Through a ...

This is comparable to the anti-miscegenation laws, which denied interracial couples to marry until the United States Supreme Court declared such ...

How interracial marriage went from criminal to commonplace

Loving Day marks the Supreme Court case that legalized mixed-race marriage and was a precedent for the right to same-sex unions.

Interracial Marriage and Same-Sex Marriage - Public Discourse

The court cases most frequently cited by these writers are Loving v. Virginia (1967), the U. S. Supreme Court case that declared interracial ...

Marriage Equality's Debt to Loving v. Virginia | Columbia Law School

That landmark decision also paved the way for the Supreme Court's marriage equality rulings—United States v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v.

RESPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT: What It Does, How It Interacts With…

If Obergefell or Loving were to fall, and some states decided to no longer marry same-sex or interracial couples, the federal government would ...

The Legacy of Loving & The Future of Same-Sex Marriage

At issue in Loving was a Virginia statute prohibiting interracial marriage. There, the Court relied on both the equal protection clause and the ...

Same-Sex Marriage and Loving v. Virginia: Analogy or Disanalogy?

In its 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia, the United States Supreme ... interracial marriages, holding that the challenged laws violated the Due ...

EXPLAINER: Congress is acting on gay, interracial marriage

For interracial couples in the US, the right to marry has been recognized much longer. A 1960s-era Supreme Court decision, Loving v. Virginia, ...

Voters in California, Colorado, and Hawaii Signal Support for ...

Progress toward marriage equality had galvanized anti-LGBTQ+ forces. In late 2003, Massachusetts's supreme court held that barring same-sex ...

Obergefell v. Hodges | 576 U.S. 644 (2015)

Obergefell v. Hodges: Under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, all states must license a marriage between two people of the same sex and ...

Thomas wants the Supreme Court to overturn landmark rulings that ...

Virginia, the landmark 1967 ruling by the Supreme Court that struck down laws prohibiting interracial marriage. That decision relied in part ...

Obergefell v. Hodges - Wikipedia

Decided on June 26, 2015, Obergefell overturned Baker and requires states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and to recognize same-sex marriages ...

Since Clarence Thomas wants to overturn same-sex marriage, why ...

He wrote that interracial marriage is not protected by the Constitution. He is one of nine Justices and his opinion may not represent the ...

Obergefell v. Hodges - Department of Justice

thoughtful District Court decisions addressing same-sex marriage—and most of them, too, have concluded same- sex couples must be allowed to ...

Same-Sex Marriage and the Supreme Court - FindLaw

Marriage equality became the law of the land with the Court's 2015 decision in Obergefell. In this decision, which protected same-sex marriage ...