Comments on: The Couple Who Shattered The Race Barrier

40th Anniversary Of Supreme Court Ruling That Overturned State Laws Barring Interracial Marriage

[emark4]

To janem4 at 10:30 AM : Jun 11, 2007,
Obviously it is you who is in need of a history lesson, not liberals.
The Dixiecrats and the Grand Ol' Party of the Civil War/Civil Rights era were nowhere near the same as the Democratic and Republican parties of today. As a matter of fact, they're almost complete opposites. The South used to be dominated by the Dems, until many constituents realized the party platform was beginning to evolve into what we associate with the modern-day Democrats. Once they realized this, all those racist/sexist/misogynist/homophobic/reactionary ex-klan members defected and joined... wait for it... The Republican Party.
Go check the voting patterns of the South from 1950-2000. Notice who was in power then, who's in power now, and what happened in between to **** people off and make them change parties to maintain the status quo. *End US History 101*

[sonpowered]

Faith in Christ, not skin color, is the Biblical standard for choosing a spouse. Interracial marriage is not a matter of right or wrong, but of wisdom, discernment, and prayer.
The Old Testament law commanded the Israelites not to engage in interracial marriage (Deuteronomy 7:3-4). The reason for this is that the Israelites would be led astray from God if they intermarried with idol worshippers, pagans, or heathens. A similar principle is laid out in the New Testament, but at a much different level: %u201CDo not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?%u201D (2 Corinthians 6:14). Just as the Israelites (believers in the one true God) were commanded not to marry nonbelievers, so Christians (believers in the one true God) are commanded not to marry unbelievers. So, the Bible does not say that interracial marriage is wrong.
Many scholars guess that Moses%u2019 wife Zipporah might have been black since she was a Cushite (Numbers 12:1). Cush is an ancient name for an area of Africa.
So, if it is NOT wrong in the Bible....who are we to say differently?

[l8c6]

seems2me, Yeah, and here you are the example of what they say today. This is exactly what was said about interracial marriages at the time and they believed their rationale for putting up barriers to interracial marriages as soundly as you believe what you submitted today. If you base this notion on the christian bible did you forget the passage that reads, in heaven there will be no male or female? Such a child of this world you must be, a child of the flesh, no spiritual vision of transcendence. Locked in your earthly body that will abandon you as it ages an dies.

[antoniof123]

What a great story but this is how so many want to unite the USA through hate.

Take a look at your selves before you cast stones. My Mother was born in Europe before the raise of Facism. When she saw what has been happening here she said it reminds her of that time. So for those of you who think you can bring Facism here to this country I warn you we will not let that happen. Take your Facist ways and leave this country before you really **** off America.

[l8c6]

jerryomara, I agree that this once viewed nation of progress is really sliding of the old world ways which is consistent with what Bush calls it " new world order" . This country is being dragged back to an old system and is steadily having more in common with the middle east and the far east than countries in Europe though those places aren't free of those who would take their societies backwards if they had a chance.

The cons here refer to "isolationism" but they merely are referring to their wild wild west "free market" of ruthless profiteering. The anti-social cons pushing for such things are the true social isolationists and would be content sitting in their castles and palaces relating to only a few of their gentry.

[jetlizhan]

a true love story - it's so hard for me to believe our country thought the way it did during the time this couple got married - how wrong and barbaric! i hope mrs loving's days are now peaceful and one day she'll be reunited with her prince charming!

There is absolutely no parrallel between same *** marriages and marriages of human beings of opposite ***, different "race". Race is an tnvented categorization that does not necessarily involve grotesque unintended, immoral and unnatural intimacy while homosexuality does. Spoken by a so-called "blackman" who doesn't identify by race nor supports falwell, Robertson et al. and generally liberal!

[l8c6]

And today the same elements, religious, societal, political that landed this couple in jail causing a supreme court case that were proclaiming that there cannot be interracial marriages, that it's an abomination before God and shall never be legal are saying the same thing about gay marriages. Of course the word today is, but this is much different but it's really not, it's just convenient for them to focus on such things instead of their own marriage problems, their pastor's latent homosexuality that comes in the form of visiting a male prostitute and using meth, their own children's drug problems, their own alcoholism, etc. etc. etc. To look for a scapegoat to take away our own shortcomings is the way of the human race and will probably never change.

[stezzer]

Surely love, any kind of love, is better than all the hate in this world.

[rafterman1]

Unfortunately, the bigots who failed to keep blacks and whites apart 40 years ago are now trying to do the same to gay people. Gay people are now the new black people for practicing "acceptable" bigotry.

[afmca]

And the same people that so vigorously fought mixed race marriages are using the same demented arguments against same *** marriages. It is just a good cover for people that wallow in bigotry and preachers that use this ignornace to enrich themselves. Falwell, Robertson, Dobson all enrich (or enriched) themselves by feeding off the biases and fears of those willing to be blindly led.

Good marriages, whether same race, different race, same/different religion, same/different ethnicity, hetero or same *** are hard to find and all strengthen the institution of marriage.