Perhaps readers recall recent bungled attempts by the Texas Legislature to pass a preemptive law that would prohibit the enactment of any favorable Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, echoing segregation fights of old.
And that -- like inequities such as slavery, segregation, marriage inequality or any others -- will not change until we, the people, decide to change it.
"I congratulate the Isle of Man for bringing forward a bill that does not follow the discriminatory example of England and Wales, where we have segregation in marriage law," said Tatchell.
He did not denounce forced marriage, child marriage, gender segregation, male guardianship, confining females in the house or throwing acid on schoolgirls, and he ignored discriminatory laws against women in regard to marriage, divorce, custody, court testimony and rape.
Virginia solicitor general Stuart Raphael told the judge Virginia had frequently been on the wrong side of history, citing the state's ban on interracial marriages, its defense of segregation as well as its opposition to allowing female students into the Virginia Military Institute.
People who believe strongly that any practice is evil, be it segregation or gay marriage, will want to outlaw it.
The ACLU mourns the death of David Carliner, one of the leading civil liberties figures in Washington for many decades, who courageously fought state and federal laws on segregation, mixed-race marriage, illegal immigrants and homosexuality.
If this were true, interracial marriage would still be illegal, and segregation the rule of the South.
He does so by returning to the Port Clinton, Ohio, of his 1950s upbringing to describe high levels of educational expansion and income equality alongside low levels of class segregation in schools and marriage.
Likewise, I agree with Cameron that forced marriages, FGM, sharia courts and gender segregation should be actively targeted by the government.
