“The older generation’s fears and prejudices have given way, and today’s young people realize that if someone loves someone, they have a right to marry. Surrounded as I am now by wonderful children and grandchildren, not a day goes by that I don’t think of Richard and our love, our right to marry, and how much it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the ‘wrong kind of person’ for me to marry. I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry.”
-Mildred Loving, of Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court case that eliminated anti-mysogenenation laws, months before her death earlier this year.
Iowa was a safe haven for inter-racial couples long before the Loving decision. Let’s hope they do the same for same-sex couples. Read more about it here or here.