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Hekate

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2. Good. I hope other states are going to do likewise. I remember how shocked I was when a friend told me

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Tue Sep 5, 2023, 08:57 PM

Sep 2023

…that when she was born in California her Irish-American mother and Filipino father had no right to marry and she was considered the product of miscegenation. We were work colleagues. In my innocent ignorance I had grown up thinking that kind of shit happened in the South — I had no idea until then how widespread it was.

The country was put on notice about zombie-laws when Dobbs was passed by SCOTUS.

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Interracial marriage now protected by law in New Jersey [View all] RandySF Sep 2023 OP

Loving was in 1967. cloudbase Sep 2023 #1

Good. I hope other states are going to do likewise. I remember how shocked I was when a friend told me Hekate Sep 2023 #2

Inter-racial marriage was illegal until 1948 Retrograde Sep 2023 #3

i'm glad he did that. it's just mind blowing that this has become necessary orleans Sep 2023 #4