Mildred Loving is younger than John McCain.
Born in 1939, Mildred Loving (who, along with her husband, won a landmark case in defense of their interracial marriage that paved the way to the elimination of laws against mixed marriage across the country) died this week at the age of 68.
On a related subject, John McCain takes the half-assed position that the issue of gay marraige should be left to individual states.
That it should be left up to the states isn’t really a half-assed position. Marriage laws typically are left up to the states–that’s why you go to the county courthouse, not the federal courthouse, to get a marriage license. The issue with McCain, and many Republicans, is whether the federal government should step in to amend the U.S. Constitution and prohibit those states that want to have gay marriage from having it. In the past, McCain has basically staked out the position that is as liberal as you can get in the Republican party, saying the government shouldn’t do this. But he’s also said he’s against gay marriage, which, unless he’s actually in favor of such an amendment, really means the only thing he can do is vote against it as a citizen in Arizona.
Comment by TheGoodReverend — May 23, 2008 @ 9:06 am
To me, it seems like he’s punting it back to the States so as not to have to take a firm stand and risk alienating anyone - his base or more liberal-minded people.
Comment by admin — May 23, 2008 @ 9:18 am
Ms. Loving just passed away a few weeks ago.
Comment by Joe — May 23, 2008 @ 9:32 am
To be fair, doesn’t Obama have pretty much the same position? Although McCain has shifted (or stayed) to the right on a lot of issues for this campaign, gay marriage, at least for now, hasn’t been one of them.
Comment by Jon B — May 23, 2008 @ 11:13 am
better to win the states over one a time and make the rest cave than have to win the entire nation in one fell swoop.
Comment by kai — May 23, 2008 @ 10:12 pm
You people make me sick!!!! What is wrong with you??? He was a prisoner of war!!! How can you even say such a thing against him???? Do you honestly know what he went though??? I believe you are nothing! Have we forgotten the Reagan years? Reagan was an” old’ boy” an Cowboy! What is wrong with America have we lost our minds!!!!! I am a medical biller, and ever day I deal with our “turn a blind eye” mentality … We are turning over our information to India, Malaysia, and Africa are personal information . I have to call the customer services lines which are located in these Counties for “OUR” health claim information on a Dailey bases!!!! I do not believe the American public even has a clue that this is taken place……………….. I am so sick of this shit!!! You what to talk shit about Mc Cain; what is wrong with you, you should be more worried about your personal information being available to people of a foreign country than talking SHIT about a man who severed in a war!!!!!, and suffered for IT!!!!! I am ASMAMED OF YOU ALL!!!! on this website!!! If you spent more time being a part of our Nation, and the meaning of our Nation as a whole, than I could understand!!!! But, people who take part of this website are not helping our World, they are ending it!!! Look back, my friends, look back!!! Have you forgotten the “COLD WAR!” you must be the people who have always stood back and said everything is wrong! While the rest iof us have moved forward no matter what the price!!!! I hope my comments do not fall on deaf ears, I hope someone out there reads what I have written and decides to take a stand!!!! I AM A AMERICAN, AND I BELIEVE THAT ONE VOICE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA, NOW, AND ALWAYS!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Susan Kelley — May 31, 2008 @ 9:12 am
Mildred Loving wrote a statement at the end of her life on the right of marriage for same sex couples. I found it really moving. http://www.freedomtomarry.org/pdfs/mildred_loving-statement.pdf
Comment by jameswilson — June 1, 2008 @ 7:25 pm
Susan… I am ASMAMED that a person such as yourself who seems so well versed (note the sarcasm)would subscribe to the complete idiocy that is innate in all forms of nationalism… i have yet to hear one reasonable argument as to why America is the “greatest” country in the world… and though as a country it once had reason to be proud the ideals upon which it was founded were abandoned long ago…
Comment by Scott — August 8, 2008 @ 5:09 am