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  2. NC House Republicans voted against marriage equality. Thom ...

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    The Respect for Marriage Act also protects interracial marriage, a right affirmed by the Supreme Court in 1967 in Loving v. Virginia. It ensures that any couple can have their marriage recognized ...

  3. Loving v. Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

  4. NC’s Tillis, Burr help Senate pass protections for same-sex ...

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    North Carolina Republicans helped the Senate pass a bill Tuesday evening that would federally protect same-sex and interracial marriages. The U.S. Senate is split evenly between Republicans and ...

  5. Bill protecting same-sex, interracial unions passes House - AOL

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    Congress Marriage Rights. ... House of Representatives works to approve the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill already passed in the Senate to codify both interracial and same-gender marriage, in ...

  6. Interracial marriage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Interracial marriages involving a White woman have a higher risk of divorce, as compared with interracial marriages involving Asian or Black women. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] According to authors Stella Ting-Toomey and Tenzin Dorjee, the increased risk of divorce observed in couples with a White wife may be related to decreased support from family members ...

  7. Respect for Marriage Act - Wikipedia

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    Interracial marriage features prominently in the Respect for Marriage Act. Interracial marriage was first legalized through the landmark supreme court case Loving v Virginia in 1967, in which the Warren court established that the laws prohibiting interracial marriage were in violation of the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the ...

  8. Kevin McCarthy thinks Respect for Marriage Act is a ‘game ...

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    Besides supporting same-sex unions, the act also upholds interracial marriage. A Gallup poll in June found that 70% of Americans approve of same-sex marriages, with majority support in both ...

  9. Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    But the bans on interracial marriage were the last to go, in 1967. Most Americans in the 1950s were opposed to interracial marriage and did not see laws banning interracial marriage as an affront to the principles of American democracy. A 1958 Gallup poll showed that 94% of Americans disapproved of interracial marriage. [37]