Richard Loving, as relayed to the Supreme Court of the United States of America, by his attorney, Bernard Cohen, who argued there against the legality of miscegenation laws.

This was fifteen years before I was born.  I am white and my boyfriend of over ten years is black.  In my parents lifetime, it would have been illegal for us to get married in the state where we have lived together for almost six years, the state where we lived together for over two years, and the state where I was born.

When the Attorney General of Virginia was asked by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court why miscegenation laws should be allowed to exist, his justification was that interracial marriage is a detriment to the children it produces.  Which just goes to show that people have been disingenuously asking everyone else to “think of the children” when they really don’t care about the children for many years now. 

The government has no right to tell two consenting citizens of this country that they may not marry each other.  This is just as true now as it was in 1967.

(via ohnostella)