X marrying Y <> Y marrying X?

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:01 PM -0400 9/9/07, Baker, John wrote:
>The mutual aspect actually was quite important in Loving v.
>Virginia, the 1967 case referred to.  Virginia contended that,
>because its miscegenation statutes punished equally both the white
>and the Negro participants in an interracial marriage, these
>statutes, despite their reliance on racial classifications, did not
>constitute an invidious discrimination based upon race.  The court
>didn't buy it.
>
>

Wonder what the current court would have thought.

LH

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>From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Benjamin Barrett
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>Subject: X marrying Y <> Y marrying X?
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>  From http://bbsnews.net/article.php?story=20060824223757467
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>A 1967 Supreme Court case that struck down a Virginia law that prevented
>white folks from marrying black folks and vice versa.
>
>BB
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