X marrying Y <> Y marrying X?

[Benjamin Barrett]

How do you tell the marrier from the marriee? BB

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.
> =20
> =20
> John Baker
> =20
>
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> From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Benjamin Barrett
> Sent: Sun 9/9/2007 4:42 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: X marrying Y <> Y marrying X?
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>  From http://bbsnews.net/article.php?story=3D20060824223757467
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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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