9th Circuit Court of Appeals: Still looney after all these years

[myotch]

(02-10-2012 07:05 AM)bean Wrote:  Yeah, interracial marriage in places like Mississippi..Alabama...didn't go so well.

Miscegenation has always happened, especially in America, but is older than civilization itself.

In the 20th century, interracial marriage became a civil rights issue not in Mississippi or Alabama, but in Virginia with its anti-miscegenation laws. In 1967, SCOTUS rules that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional.

FTR, my marriage would be strictly considered miscegenation, as my wife is Latina-Mexican with very little European ancestry (she's 1/8 or 1/16 Portuguese).

Now, while homosexual sex may have happened as long as interracial coupling has happened, homosexuals historically have not married same-sex partners, as a rule, even in places and times where homosexuality was accepted and even encouraged.