Some Americans Calling for Death of Woman Who Urinated on Flag

[bigtakilla]

Final-Fan said:

bigtakilla said:

It's not a law that a black man can't marry a white woman.

Essentially it's like saying the neighbor who is burning crosses shouting the N bomb with a white hood is perfectly acceptable. It's in his constitutional rights.

It may be his legal right of expression, but hardly acceptable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_Integrity_Act_of_1924

Virginia's anti-miscegenation law was overturned as unconstitutional in 1967 but was not formally repealed by the legislature until 1975. 

Is it your position that a police officer would have been within his rights to arrest a black man and his white wife in 1973 for getting married even though that law was ruled unconstitutional six years earlier?  This is exactly analogous to the idea that a police officer is within his rights to arrest someone for flag-burning today. 

Difference, those laws were repealed, not still laws and enforced. 

Now, essentially if you're asking if I think people were very accepting of interracial weddings in 1924, I'd say no. Hell, even in 1973, I'm not sure how accepted interracial marriage was, but enough to get the law repealed. My beliefs have nothing to do with it.