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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Loving v. Virginia is based on the same legal foundation of constitutional right to privacy as every other thing Clarence Thomas targeted, but he left that one out. Why?[/quote]

Ohhh, good point.[/quote]

And I have yet to hear one person explain the distinction. There is no reason not to go there anymore, especially if we are turning it all over to the states to decide.

Virginia made that decision long ago. SCOTUS overturned the decision based on a constitutional right to privacy, but that has been negated now. Right?[/quote]

They would probably say that interracial marriage is not really controversial anymore, whereas abortion is still contentious and divisive and therefore subject to the political processes.

I also heard yesterday, you can't control what race you were born, but you can control things with abortion. But in the next sentence they were saying gay marriage is next...

Lol, I have a headache.[/quote]

I get that, and I see the hand gestures towards "we're modern now" in this thread.

I'm just trying to be very clear that when the legality of banning interracial marriage went before SCOTUS, the ruling that the decision was overturned based on *interpretation* of the Fourteenth Amendment and extension to civil right to marry, as well as basic freedoms assumed therein.

Sure, any given state might not be motivated to prohibit or invalidate interracial marriages right now. But Thomas' argument seems to be that there is no federal recourse to stopping them from doing so.

States' rights, y'all. Whoopee. [/quote]

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