Celebrating Loving v Virginia
Posted on Jun 09, 2009 at 02:23 pm
Science Blogs
June 9, 2009
There are events planned all over the country over the next week to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the ruling in Loving v Virginia, which overturned all state laws against interracial marriage. Below, a few words from Mildred Loving on the freedom to marry:
June 9, 2009
There are events planned all over the country over the next week to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the ruling in Loving v Virginia, which overturned all state laws against interracial marriage. Below, a few words from Mildred Loving on the freedom to marry:
When my late husband, Richard, and I got married in Washington, DC in 1958, it wasn't to make a political statement or start a fight. We were in love, and we wanted to be married. I am still not a political person, but I am proud that Richard's and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving, are all about.[Link]
Stage, Screen Stars Come Out to Support Equal Rights to Marriage
Posted on Apr 24, 2009 at 01:46 pm
The Alternative Press
April 20, 2009
On Monday, April 13, the stars gathered at the Peter Norton Symphony Space on the Upper West Side in New York City for "Broadway for a New America: Standing Up for Marriage Equality and a Progressive Agenda for Change." While the music was themed around love and marriage – for everybody – participants, who are arguably among the most talented people on the planet, made their point with touch-notch music and drama. (Link)
Here's a video from the event of Phyllis Newman reading "Loving for All," Mildred Loving's letter in support of the freedom to marry, at Broadway for a New America:
April 20, 2009
On Monday, April 13, the stars gathered at the Peter Norton Symphony Space on the Upper West Side in New York City for "Broadway for a New America: Standing Up for Marriage Equality and a Progressive Agenda for Change." While the music was themed around love and marriage – for everybody – participants, who are arguably among the most talented people on the planet, made their point with touch-notch music and drama. (Link)
Here's a video from the event of Phyllis Newman reading "Loving for All," Mildred Loving's letter in support of the freedom to marry, at Broadway for a New America:
OP-ED: Iowa’s Family Values
Posted on Apr 09, 2009 at 01:49 pm
New York Times
April 8, 2009
Steven W. Thrasher writes, "When the good state of Iowa conferred the dignity of civic recognition on my parents' relationship -- a relationship some members of their own families thought was deviant and immoral, that the civil authorities of Nebraska had tried to destroy, and that even some of my mom's college-educated friends believed would produce children striped like zebras -- our family began. And by the time my father died, their interracial marriage was seen just as a marriage, and an admirable 45-year one at that." [Link]
The Color of Love
Posted on Dec 28, 2008 at 05:08 pm
New York Times
December 28, 2008
Last year, the 40th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, three colleagues working on behalf of Faith in America visited Mildred Loving at the small ranch house that Richard built after they moved back to Virginia. [Link]
December 28, 2008
Last year, the 40th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, three colleagues working on behalf of Faith in America visited Mildred Loving at the small ranch house that Richard built after they moved back to Virginia. [Link]
Proposition 8 and ‘the will of the people’—an historical perspective
Posted on Dec 08, 2008 at 01:06 pm
The Jewish Journal
November 26, 2008
"It is barely 40 years since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the kind of state anti-miscegenation laws that once barred the type of union that produced our current president-elect. Long after the courts have similarly struck down Proposition 8, and same-sex marriage prohibitions have rightly joined Jim Crow laws on the ash heap of history, our children will look back with wonder at how it could ever have been otherwise. May that day come soon." [Link]
November 26, 2008
"It is barely 40 years since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the kind of state anti-miscegenation laws that once barred the type of union that produced our current president-elect. Long after the courts have similarly struck down Proposition 8, and same-sex marriage prohibitions have rightly joined Jim Crow laws on the ash heap of history, our children will look back with wonder at how it could ever have been otherwise. May that day come soon." [Link]
Letter to the Editor: Do Not Deny a Minority the Right to Marry
Posted on Dec 01, 2008 at 12:22 pm
New York Times
November 30, 2008
Evan Wolfson writes, "Imagine what our country would look like today had the opponents of equality been able to cement into the Constitution the prejudices of the majority and the passions of the moment. Our president-elect -- the son of a couple who would have been barred from marriage because of 'tradition,' religious opposition and the majority's discomfort -- might have had a very different life." [Link]
Read more from Evan Wolfson.
November 30, 2008
Evan Wolfson writes, "Imagine what our country would look like today had the opponents of equality been able to cement into the Constitution the prejudices of the majority and the passions of the moment. Our president-elect -- the son of a couple who would have been barred from marriage because of 'tradition,' religious opposition and the majority's discomfort -- might have had a very different life." [Link]
Read more from Evan Wolfson.
The Loving Decision
Posted on Nov 17, 2008 at 10:54 am
Newsweek
November 15, 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling novelist Anna Quindlen writes, "The last word here goes to an authority on battling connubial bigotry. On the anniversary of the Loving decision last year, the bride wore tolerance. Mildred Loving, mother and grandmother, who once had cops burst into her bedroom because she was sleeping with her own husband, was quoted in a rare public statement saying she believed all Americans, 'no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry.' She concluded, 'That's what Loving, and loving, are all about.'"[Link]
Read more about Loving v. Virginia.
November 15, 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling novelist Anna Quindlen writes, "The last word here goes to an authority on battling connubial bigotry. On the anniversary of the Loving decision last year, the bride wore tolerance. Mildred Loving, mother and grandmother, who once had cops burst into her bedroom because she was sleeping with her own husband, was quoted in a rare public statement saying she believed all Americans, 'no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry.' She concluded, 'That's what Loving, and loving, are all about.'"[Link]
Read more about Loving v. Virginia.
Howard Simon: Amendment 2 is not about ‘gay marriage’
Posted on Oct 28, 2008 at 10:35 am
The Gainesville Sun
October 28, 2008
"One day, we all will look back on the idea that government could have the power to dictate who adults can marry with as much bewilderment as we now, shamefully, wonder how we allowed government the power to ban interracial marriage – until the U.S. Supreme Court ended the legal basis for that prejudice in the appropriately named landmark 1967 ACLU case of Loving v. Virginia." [Link]
Read more about what's happening in Florida.
October 28, 2008
"One day, we all will look back on the idea that government could have the power to dictate who adults can marry with as much bewilderment as we now, shamefully, wonder how we allowed government the power to ban interracial marriage – until the U.S. Supreme Court ended the legal basis for that prejudice in the appropriately named landmark 1967 ACLU case of Loving v. Virginia." [Link]
Read more about what's happening in Florida.
Marriage ruling has ‘beautiful observations’
Posted on Oct 16, 2008 at 10:26 am
The New Haven Register
October 15, 2008
"Quoting from the 1967 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia, our court writes that the freedom to marry 'has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men and women.'" [Link]
Read more about Loving v. Virginia.
October 15, 2008
"Quoting from the 1967 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia, our court writes that the freedom to marry 'has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men and women.'" [Link]
Read more about Loving v. Virginia.
OPINION: Anti-gay marriage ban just like ban on interracial marriage
Posted on Sep 09, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Gilroy Dispatch
September 8, 2008
More than 40 years ago, laws banning interracial marriage wouldn't have been repealed if put to a vote. It took the United States Supreme Court to tell Americans that they were not living up to the promises of the Constitution: In 1967, in Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. Those opposed to interracial marriage made many of the same arguments about "nature," the Bible and tradition and made the same predictions of dire consequences that are hurled today by same-sex marriage opponents.In both cases, these arguments are poppycock. [Link]
September 8, 2008
More than 40 years ago, laws banning interracial marriage wouldn't have been repealed if put to a vote. It took the United States Supreme Court to tell Americans that they were not living up to the promises of the Constitution: In 1967, in Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. Those opposed to interracial marriage made many of the same arguments about "nature," the Bible and tradition and made the same predictions of dire consequences that are hurled today by same-sex marriage opponents.In both cases, these arguments are poppycock. [Link]