Mildred Loving’s Statement Supporting Marriage Equality
When my late husband, Richard, and I got married in Washington, DC in 1958, it wasn’t to make a political statement or start a fight. We were in love, and we wanted to be married.
We didn’t get married in Washington because we wanted to marry there. We did it there because the government wouldn’t allow us to marry back home in Virginia where we grew up, where we met, where we fell in love, and where we wanted to be together and build our family.
Please check out the entire statement. It is moving, powerful and as meaningful as it could be given today’s climate of anti-gay discrimination.
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