Deep Thought of the Day

The arguments that Christians used in defending laws prohibiting inter-racial marriage are exactly the same that they use to defend laws prohibiting same-sex marriage.

The Supreme Court struck down those laws in 1968, in the case of Loving vs. Virginia. At the time, over 70% of the American population were opposed to inter-racial marriage.

They didn't get to vote on it.

The Racial Integrity Act began to crumble on June 12, 1967 when the United States Supreme Court decided Loving v. Virginia. The portion of the law which had prohibited marriages between "whites" and "nonwhites" was found to be contrary to the guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In 1975, Virginia's General Assembly repealed the rest of the Racial Integrity Act. In 1979 the Sterilization Act was repealed. In 2001, a bill (HJ607ER[22]) passed by a vote of 85-10 in the House and 40-0 in the Senate. The bill expressed the General Assembly's profound regret for its role in the eugenics movement. On May 2, 2002, Governor Mark Warner issued a statement also expressing "profound regret for the Commonwealth's role in the eugenics movement," specifically naming Virginia's 1924 compulsory sterilization legislation[23].

But don't expect any "profound regret" from the Christians any time soon.