It already has.
Posted by Yuri on Thu, 02/26/2004 - 6:24pm.
Interracial marriage was illegal in several states (mostly in the south) prior to the 1960s, and it did indeed get people up in arms about discrimination. Those who were for the ban claimed it was "God's will:"

Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix. - a trial judge on the Circuit Court of Caroline County, Va., 1959

Laws against interracial marriage were found to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1967 (Loving vs. Virginia):

The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men. . . . To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. . . . Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State. - Chief Justice Earl Warren, Loving vs. Virginia

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