Law of the Land
The court’s ruling in Loving v. Virginia—and the states’ reactions to it—serve as a good history lesson for what may lie ahead for gay marriage.
Peter Wallenstein, an award-winning professor of history at Virginia Tech, has published such books as Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law—an American History (2002) and Race, Sex, and The Freedom to Marry: Loving v. Virginia (2014).