Op-Ed: Love is love is love: How two Supreme Court decisions changed my life (via latimesopinion)
that when God created the races “he placed them on separate continents,” demonstrating his segregationist intent.
that state bans on interracial marriage were unconstitutional. Mildred and Richard, with their three children, could return to Virginia, the state they both called home. Considering how many murdered civil rights workers we knew, I had to agree that his fear was real. I never did join him in Mississippi, and our marriage eventually collapsed. Decades later, I found myself rooting for marriage equality of a different sort. By then I had been committed for 25 years to a wonderful woman, another civil rights advocate, Carole Johnson.
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