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→Significance of the Case: Everyone agreed that interracial marriages were marriages
The case is also significant because it is about how the United States defined marriage. Before 1967, a legal marriage could not be contracted in states with anti-miscegenation laws if the partners were of different races. Thus the case redefined what constituted a marriage. Some proponents of [[gay rights]] have cited this case in support of a right to marriage <ref> Coolidge, David O, Playing the Loving Card: Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Analogy, BYU Journal of Public Law, 1998, 12 BYU.</ref> <ref>Pamela S. Karlan, "Loving ''Lawrence''", Stanford Law School.</ref>, although opponents argue that this is not viable as the 'Loving' marriage was still between a man and a woman.
The case is also significant because it is about how the United States defined marriage. Before 1967, a legal marriage could not be contracted in states with anti-miscegenation laws if the partners were of different races. Thus the case redefined what constituted a marriage. Some proponents of [[gay rights]] have cited this case in support of a right to marriage <ref> Coolidge, David O, Playing the Loving Card: Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Analogy, BYU Journal of Public Law, 1998, 12 BYU.</ref> <ref>Pamela S. Karlan, "Loving ''Lawrence''", Stanford Law School.</ref>, although opponents argue that this is not viable as the 'Loving' marriage was still between a man and a woman.
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]
==Text of the Supreme Court decision: ''Loving v. Virginia''==
==Text of the Supreme Court decision: ''Loving v. Virginia''==