Reply #134: I like a constitutional scholar who knows his history. [View All]

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Especially one who knows how this has to play out in the long run.

Because he, himself, is the product of a hundred year fight to honor a basic civil right.

I'm speaking, of course, of Loving v. Virginia.

A national level measure to reverse anti-miscegenation laws would have failed, because, while it it would have played in some parts of the north, it would have totally failed in the south.

Not unlike our current plight. Actually, the parallels are pretty amazing at times.

So, what's the solution?

"State's Rights". Seems abhorrent, and disturbing, aside from a little magical thing known as the 14th amendment. You see, once a few of our bluer states acknowledge our basic rights, and the redder states try to deny us those same basic rights, their whole prejudicial DOMA, anti-partnership, anti-family house of cards can be pulled down with one single supreme court decision.

Don't think it'll happen? Check out Lawrence v. Texas, something I'm immensely happy I got to see happen in my lifetime. :)