The first: on whether the oft-made analogy between opposing gay marriage and opposing miscegenation is tendentious. Linker says that, while he finds the arguments against gay marriage to be wrong ...

When it ruled on the case of McLaughlin v. Florida, the Supreme Court could easily have ruled on the constitutionality of all miscegenation laws in the 19 states where they still exist.

The laws which most directly protect "racial integrity," whatever that may be, are those which make miscegenation (intermarriage of races) a crime. The first anti-miscegenation law was enacted in ...