Based on a separate thread arguing gay rights, and gay marriage with EuP, I wonder how people feel about inter-racial relationships. Specifically inter-racial marriages. Seeing as how people don't choose who they fall in love with, I see no difference between the minority of the population that is involved in inter-racial marriage, and the minority of gays in the population that wants to obtain the right to marry. As a matter of fact, I see no difference between either of those to the majority of the population that marry within their own race to the opposite sex. Love is love, and that is that.

Most people in the US are religious, and the Christian/Muslim/Jewish opinion of homosexuality is very clear.

Permanent change will not happen unless you can convince a majority that you are right. We were actually making a lot of progress (according to the polls) until this judicial activism *beep* started...

I believe Homo marriage will be allowed eventually. But their actions have delayed it by decades.

How do you feel about inter-racial marriage?

What makes girl-boy marriage or black-white marriage any different than boy-boy or girl-girl marriage? Again I proclaim that love is love, and that is that. Get over it...live your life, and let others live theirs.

The same way I feel about gay marriage. The only difference is that the majority of the American masses have already been convinced that interracial marriage is fine. It is not even an issue anymore except among a tiny minority of racial purists. I doubt that even in the most racist states in the country it that making it illegal could even get on a ballot.

They have religious reasons why it shouldnt be allowed. Marriage is not in the Constitution technically...so there is no right to it. It is defined at the state level.

I agree. Race has nothing to do with love. It might be hard culturally for a mixed-race couple, but that is a problem that can be dealt with. At least it isn't unlawful any more. Society will cope. Here in the Bay Area, it is pretty common, and unremakable.

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[quote]So you view inter-racial marriage as a bad thing...as something that is morally wrong. You view inter-racial marriage as in some way harming our society? What isn't fine about inter-racial marriage in your mind? What is your problem with it? It probably wouldn't get on the ballot to make it illegal, and this is where we should be with gay marriage. Simple as that.

Since marriage in general is not in the constitution, there should be no law banning gay marriage either. This goes much deeper than merely the state level. There are gays in every state, not just California, as hard as that may be for you to imagine. Just as black civil rights deserved national support, and not just state by state legislation...so does gay marriage.

Inter-racial marriage is a non issue. It never really was to open minded people.

Intolerant social conservatives (i.e. troglodytes), on the other hand, believed that such marriages were a sin against God and an attack on the traditional family. (Note: now, why does that seem familiar? )

I don't know how people react to interracial couples in the more backward and anachronistic parts of this country, but in places like NYC, no one even really pays attention. And, they shouldn't.

In 1912, an attempt was made to amend the constitution to forever ban interracial marriages. The attempt failed. Then about 55 years went by and the Supreme Court decided Loving v. Virginia which struck down all the anti-miscegenation laws.

In 2004, an attempt was made to amend the constitution to forever ban gay marriages. The attempt failed. I wonder how long it will be before the Supreme Court decides a case that strikes down all the anti-gay marriage laws?

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Marriage wasn't defined by white white and black black...it was defined though by a man and a woman...compltely different things.

If Gay couples want to unite like straight couples then they need not call it "marriage". Call it something else and go forward with your right in that aspect but don't call it a "marriage" and everything that a marriage entails.

Been there, done that, didn't care for it.

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But I also don't equate homosexuality to race. Choice versus non-choice.