Civil Rights
Feb. 23, 2007
Reinterpreting the Founders
Forum Column - By Jordan Susman - Recent developments in Jewish and Roman Catholic theology put constitutional debates in perspective.
By Jordan Susman
In convicting a mixed-race couple of violating Virginia's anti-miscegenation laws in 1958, the trial judge stated, "The fact that [God] separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix." Of course, the Supreme Court overturned this and other states' bans on mixed marriages in the 1967 decision Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967). Loving resolved the issue of an...
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