{"id":45703,"date":"2014-10-08T15:42:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T21:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/interracial-vs-same-sex-marriage.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:37:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:37:56","slug":"interracial-vs-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/interracial-vs-same-sex-marriage.html","title":{"rendered":"Interracial vs Same-Sex Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the hover caption indicates, one significant difference between interracial and same-sex marriage in the US is that societal approval for the former lagged far behind its legalization in <i>Loving v. Virginia<\/i> (<a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loving_v._Virginia\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loving_v._Virginia<\/a>), but societal approval of same-sex marriage has <i>preceded<\/i> its legalization (which has been both legislative and judicial).<\/p>\n<p>(It&#39;s also remarkable that there are still about 20% of the population who disapprove of interracial marriage &#8212; but, then, it seems you can find about 20% of the population to disapprove of just about anything.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1431\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Tc_ZgWhDUQWAEJuAHMdXI-dYVFo3EOZn6wytUOndoOgNMpvhJhyuUiQ-diz4MjrTyFrWzGpRYIw=w506-h303' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1431\/'>xkcd: Marriage<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWarning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors). BTC 1FhCLQK2ZXtCUQDtG98p6fVH7S6mxAsEey &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ZfkDEWS3Ss6'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the hover caption indicates, one significant difference between interracial and same-sex marriage in the US is that societal approval for the former lagged far behind its legalization in Loving v. Virginia (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loving_v._Virginia), but societal approval of same-sex marriage has preceded its legalization (which has been both legislative and judicial). (It&#39;s also remarkable that there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/interracial-vs-same-sex-marriage.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interracial vs Same-Sex Marriage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-gay-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50216,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/the-pace-of-social-change.html","url_meta":{"origin":45703,"position":0},"title":"The pace of social change","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Apr-15 11:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"This article looks at some mass social changes and their timeline of acceptance (based on state laws then federal laws\/rulings), including women's suffrage, abortion, prohibition, interracial marriage, and now same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization. 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