[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Prop 8/Mildred Loving

[Lee Truslow]

The story of the Lovings: http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/062007/06102007/289608/index_htmlShe died earlier this year: http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/052008/05052008/376825
 



To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.comFrom: Schlobin at aol.comDate: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:54:02 +0000Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Protest the passage of Prop 8



Are folks familiar with the Mildred Loving versus Virginia story? She was an African American woman who married a European American man, and the police came into their home in 1953? 1959? (sorry still doing this from memory) and arrested them. Interracial marriage was against the law. The judge said that interractial marriage was immoral, and sentenced them to a year in prison. They were able to avoid prison by moving out of Virginia. It was not until 1967 that this case was overturned and interracial marriage was declared legal. 1967.Before she died, Mildred Loving came out in favor of marriage for ALL people, explicitly including same gender couples.Susan McGee, Eureka, CA 






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