If you were absent:
1. Read the Loving v. Virginia case study (Friday folder)
2. Watch the two video clips3. Consider the following questions:
1. Read the Loving v. Virginia case study (Friday folder)
2. Watch the two video clips3. Consider the following questions:
- Why were the Lovings indicted and sentenced to a year in prison?
- Why did the Supreme Court find the Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 unconstitutional?
- James Madison, called “Father of the Constitution” asserted that “Conscience is the most sacred property.” The Court held in Loving v. Virginia (1967) that “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.” How does the Loving v. Virginia decision support freedom of conscience?
- What relevance (if any) might Loving v. Virginia have to the current debate about gay marriage?