A Loving Story

Photo by: Grey Villet

When Mildred and Richard Loving married in Washington, D.C. in 1958, they knew that they were going against a law. They knew that in their home state of Virginia, that getting married was not only considered a sin, it was illegal. They crossed the state border and married in D.C.

A few months after returning to Virginia, Police raided their home in the middle of the night and arrested them. They we found guilty and faced a year in jail unless they left the state. They did. They were "banished" to Washington D.C.

Their story eventually made it to then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. The American Civil Liberties Union took up the case and brought it all the way to the United States Supreme Court. In 1967, in a landmark Civil Rights ruling, the court struck down America's laws against interracial marriage.

Mildred never considered herself a political person. She just knew who she loved. She knew that it should not be illegal to marry the person that she loved.

Nowadays, it's common to see interracial marriage. It seems normal to most of us.

I told this story to my son. He looked at the pictures and asked one simple question: "Why did people have a problem with it?" I told him that people didn't like change. People thought it was going against "God's law."

Sound familiar? We fight against Gay marriage because certain Christian people believe it goes against "God's law"

There was a time that women didn't have rights because it was feared that if we allowed women out of the kitchen, things would change. It was going against God's plan for families. So, Women stood up and fought, and won equal rights. Did things change? Yes. Did the idea of families change? Not really. We just had to open our minds to a new kind of family.

The Civil Rights movement gave black people equal rights. Many many "christian" people believed that giving black people the right to vote was going against God. Sounds silly to think that now.

What is my point? Simple..things change. It shouldn't effect your faith. Don't like Gay marriage...don't have one. It is not going against God's plan. If it were , the cause would have died years ago.

This country evolves every day. 40 years ago interracial marriage was almost unheard of, until people started opening their minds.

Love is what is important. Nothing else.