Blue Truck, Red State: Loving

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Loving - and Loving

Loving v. Virginia, the landmark Supreme Court case striking down all state laws against interracial marriage, was decided on June 12, 1967. Attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies, representing the plaintiffs in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, have made this short video as a reminder of the fundamental right to marry.

And just to jog your memories a little further, thought I'd throw in this clip from October, 2008 - make of it what you will:

4 comments:

Stan said...: R.I.P. Mildred Loving a wise woman.
To Mr. Biden and Ms. Palin: uh, yeah we're still waiting for those civil rights. I guess it's going to be up to the States.; June 19, 2011 at 9:11 PM
Russ Manley said...: Interesting, isn't it Stan, now that the re-election machine is gearing up, the White House is making noises about "evolving" into supporting equal marriage?

Whatever.; June 19, 2011 at 11:12 PM
Craig said...: A most interesting post Russ. How far we've come... and yet not far at all.
Palin is scary. She's charming, idiotic and captivating all at the same time and I'm not altogether sure that I trust middle America to make the right choice.; June 20, 2011 at 2:43 PM
Mareczku said...: This brings back memories for me. In 7th Grade, I wrote a paper about the Lovings. I couldn't imagine that they ended up in jail for being married. How could love be a crime? I was just an innocent kid who had never been down south so it was hard for me to understand. God bless the Lovings. May they rest in peace.

Mark; June 20, 2011 at 8:50 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu