Should interracial marriage have been subject to a vote of the people instead...

[Healthy Environment]

...of the courts? Those courts that declared a ban on interracial marriage unconstitutional..............

Those are "activist judges" by your standards.

Should interracial marriage have been subjected to a vote by the people?

(just answer the question, no need for off-topic rants.)

[PEACE IS MINE IN 2009]

It should not be a problem!

[Big bro's handiwipes]

Plain folks have double standards lynch mobs, tar and feathering werec the common methods employed by the masses

[Zyzzyx]

People of different races were already pretty well mixed in the United States even when interracial marriage was prohibited in several states. This was in part due to white masters impregnating black slave women; in part due to early European immigrant men impregnating (and sometimes marrying) Indian women; in part due to runaway slaves (both male and female) being taken in by Indian tribes; in part due to mixing in the Mexican border states; in part due to Chinese and Japanese immigration; in part due to American soldiers (both black and white) bringing home wives from Japan and the Philippines after WW2; and in part due to an inconsistent definition of what race meant. So, even if you think races should not mix, you would still have a problem with categorizing who should be eligible to marry with whom.

How would it have been possible to structure something to vote on, in any rational way?

[The Real Jared]

Consenting adults. As long as this phrase is central, let the people marry.

[David]

why are you worried about this? did your sister mary a black(white) guy?

[sean b]

Well, the u.s. constitution doesn't make any references to marriage. Even though for race preservation pusposes I think it's in everyone's best interest to procreate within their race, and I say this because each race is special and unique; deserving of preservation. It would be a boring world if we all were the same color. But, I still think free men and women have a right to marry whomever they please, while upholding the sanctity of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

[Praise Hail Santa]

Whats you problem with somebody marrying the person they love?

[dwoodall]

We regulate hiring practices by color, so why not marriage?

I don't know. Michelle is ALL black, but not Obama. I doubt it gets dealt with until he is out of office.

[Culture Warrior]

Yes, those judges were legislating from the bench.