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Living Constitution
Here is an alternate view from a Catholic writer:
Here is an alternate view from a Catholic writer:
:The definition of marriage was not at stake in Loving. Everyone agreed that [[interracial marriage]]s were marriages. Racists just wanted to ban them as part of the evil regime of [[white supremacy]] that the [[equal protection clause]] was designed to destroy. [http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/marriage/mf0123.htm]
:The definition of marriage was not at stake in Loving. Everyone agreed that [[interracial marriage]]s were marriages. Racists just wanted to ban them as part of the evil regime of [[white supremacy]] that the [[equal protection clause]] was designed to destroy. [http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/marriage/mf0123.htm]
==Original Intent==
"Loving v. Virginia" was a living constitutionalist decision, which codified the moral views of nine lawyers on the Supreme Court into U.S. constitutional law. The decision focused on the Fourteenth Amendment, yet those who ratified that amendment did not intend to legalize interracial marriage, and instead leave it up to the people of each state. While the result may fit in with modern sensibilities, the way the Court arrived at it, and the precedent it set, set the groundwork for the Court's later recognition of a constitutional right to [[same-sex marriage]].
==Text of the Supreme Court decision: ''Loving v. Virginia''==
==Text of the Supreme Court decision: ''Loving v. Virginia''==