The RP's Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Love

The Politics of Love

This Sunday, June 12th, is the 44th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, the United States Supreme Court's decision that struck down laws forbidding interracial marriage. Unbelievably, that's forty-four more years that gay men and women have been legally denied the basic human right of marrying the person they love. Just before her death four year years ago, Mildred Loving released a statement in support of the rights of our gay friends, family, neighbors and colleagues to m...