Southern Chicken
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Dont be silly. From 1776 to the 1990s we never had same sex marriage and our existance and survival has continued just fine. Loving is quoting Skinner v Oklahoma
We are dealing here with legislation which involves one of the basic civil rights of man. Marriage and procreation are fundamental to the very existence and survival of the race.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0316_0535_ZO.html
In both Virginia and Oklahoma at the time, sex outside of marriage was illegal which made marriage necessary for procreation.
Hey Dixon can you try to read what I actually posted. Or might, I suggest that you take a course in reading comprehension? I will copy and paste from my post and maybe you could understand the bolded
Granted, there were limitations, but those limitations existed in other laws. There was never (prior to 1970) an explicit ban on same-sex marriage. The exclusion came in another form... sodomy laws. And this made sense, yes? Through most of our Nation's history marriage was about procreation and part of the government's regulation to ensure this was the existence of sodomy laws
But this changed (starting in 1961) when states began repealing sodomy laws (either through legislative action or through judicial challenge). Suddenly, there was nothing to keep same-sex couples from marrying in states that had a legal definition on the books. So, states began changing the legal definition of marriage.