X marrying Y <> Y marrying X?

[Baker, John]

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.
 
 
John Baker
 

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Subject: X marrying Y <> Y marrying X?



 From http://bbsnews.net/article.php?story=20060824223757467

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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