08-22-2007, 01:04 PM
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| Banned Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Los Angeles Gender:  Posts: 11,896 Country:  Points: 39,908, Level: 100 | Level up: 0%, 0 Points needed | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hevusa I wasn't referring to sexual preference. I was referring to the fact that he is not white. Just because of who he is he would not have been allowed to marry as he wished in America. Nor would you. Sound familiar? | "By 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court once and for all declared prohibitions against intermarriage unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia, only seventeen states, all in the heavily Protestant South, upheld anti-miscegenation statutes."
It makes us Brits sad to think that you suffered under apartheid laws until quite recently.
Still, it's all in the past now.
BTW this is off-topic. |