Bias in Black and White: California's Religion-Based Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Parallels Historic Battle over Interracial Unions, Say Legal Experts

Thirty years ago, Roger Mills had to fight in seven courts to win the right to marry the woman he loved. Mills, who is white, wanted to marry a black woman. In most parts of the country, this would not have been a big deal in 1970. But in Mississippi, a state still resisting integration and clinging to a Jim Crow past that condemned "race mixing" as un-Christian, it absolutely was.