Dear lord, no
Jun. 18th, 2025 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fabrisseI spent two days in Richmond earlier this month. My sister's friend, with whom we stayed, watched the local news which was a different perspective from Georgia.
There was one brief interview with someone who said (somewhat paraphrased), "We're looking for a test case. If we can find the right test case, we can get Loving overturned and back to the states." It took an age for my jaw to come off the floor.
Look, I knew we were working to keep Obergefell the law of the land. It happened a decade ago. Loving vs Virginia is from 1967. It's the one that overturned anti-miscegnation laws.
Now I was 6 years old and from a family so white that flashbulbs can give us sunburn, but, from the time I was old enough to understand laws, that anti-miscegnation crap was taught as history. (I'm somewhat relieved that Dreamwidth's spell checker doesn't recognize the word.) Don't think this was only in the South; a mixed race friend's parents had to travel from their home in New Jersey to Michigan to be allowed to marry. New Jersey would recognize marriages from other states under "full faith and credit" but wouldn't allow it there.
I have too many friends and acquaintances who could be harmed by these laws. When we protest for freedom to marry for everyone, remember that it's not just the LGBTQIA+ community who is at risk.
When I set my calendar this year, I could have sworn it was for 2025, not 1925.
There was one brief interview with someone who said (somewhat paraphrased), "We're looking for a test case. If we can find the right test case, we can get Loving overturned and back to the states." It took an age for my jaw to come off the floor.
Look, I knew we were working to keep Obergefell the law of the land. It happened a decade ago. Loving vs Virginia is from 1967. It's the one that overturned anti-miscegnation laws.
Now I was 6 years old and from a family so white that flashbulbs can give us sunburn, but, from the time I was old enough to understand laws, that anti-miscegnation crap was taught as history. (I'm somewhat relieved that Dreamwidth's spell checker doesn't recognize the word.) Don't think this was only in the South; a mixed race friend's parents had to travel from their home in New Jersey to Michigan to be allowed to marry. New Jersey would recognize marriages from other states under "full faith and credit" but wouldn't allow it there.
I have too many friends and acquaintances who could be harmed by these laws. When we protest for freedom to marry for everyone, remember that it's not just the LGBTQIA+ community who is at risk.
When I set my calendar this year, I could have sworn it was for 2025, not 1925.
