Happy Loving Day!

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Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Happy Loving Day:

I didn't know about this project until I read about it on Pam's House Blend, but I'm all for it: Happy Loving Day. Today is the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling in Loving v Virginia, the landmark decision that overturned state laws against interracial marriage. It was a rare unanimous ruling on what was, at the time, still a very hot social issue. There is going to be a conference in Chicago next weekend on the case. I am still waiting for a conservative originalist to either defend the decision on originalist grounds (without completely contradicting their arguments against similar rulings in other case) or tell us why it was wrongly decided. No one has ever accepted that challenge.