05-20-2012, 03:11 AM
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erika
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: "the high up north"
Posts: 6,127
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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
Bull shit. Not in the US. Marriage is not mentioned in the US Constitution, therefore it is a States Rights issue.
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Originally Posted by Earl Warren, Loving v. Virginia
Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival.... To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discrimination. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.
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