LGBT News As the Supreme Court Weighs Gay Marriage, a Look at Its Last Major Ruling

BradThePug · Jun 12, 2015

The Supreme Court heard a case in 1967 that would change marriage laws across the nation, overturning individual state restrictions on who could legally marry whom. Gay marriage wasn't even a speck on the horizon that year, as the Stonewall Riots (often cited as the start of the modern gay rights movement) were still two years away. Still, the stakes were high and emotions were running deep as the Supreme Court ruled that states could not bar two people from different racial backgrounds from marrying one another.

Now, as the Court again considers who should be allowed to legally wed, demonstrators on both sides are once again passionately speaking out. One common argument offered up by those who oppose same-sex marriage is that if gay people are legally allowed to wed, then everyone will want to enter a gay marriage. This parallels a similar argument made in the 1960s concerning interracial marriage, an argument that U.S. News tackled in a June 1967 article called "Now That Mixed Marriage Is Legal...."
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AwesomGaytheist · Jun 12, 2015

Throughout its history, the Supreme Court has ruled 13 times that marriage is a fundamental right.

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