Posted by CBLV
December 26, 2008
What a heartwarming story.
Mildred Loving died this year. It was she and her husband whose Supreme Court case overturned state laws against mixed-race marriage: “The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.”
Mrs. Loving was asked in 2007, the 40th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, to lend her support to gay marriage.
On her own, she talked to her neighbors about the request; she talked to her children about it. And in the end, Loving told Etienne, yes, she would allow the group to read a statement in her name supporting gay marriage at the commemoration. “Are you sure you understand what you’re saying?” Etienne asked. “You understand that you’re putting your name behind the idea that two men or two women should have the right to marry each other?”
“I understand it,” Loving said, “and I believe it.”
Sometimes I need to be reminded that not all Christians are wicked.
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