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Loving v. Virginia, then and now: race, sexuality, religion, & law - UNC Press Blog
We welcome a guest post today from Fay Botham, author of the forthcoming book Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law. In her book, Botham demonstrates how Christianity was important to both racist and antiracist movements in the 19th and 20th centuries and how those movements influenced litigation over matters of marriage and race. In this post on the anniversary of the Loving v. Virginia decision, she shows how 21st-century arguments against same-sex marriage echo the biblical defense of racism from a previous generation.--ellen June 12, 2009, marks the forty-second anniversary...
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