Is marriage a civil rights issue?
Absolutely. Martin Luther King Jr. said “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that marriage is a fundamental human right. Before that ruling, several states refused to allow interracial couples to marry. But the Supreme Court said “the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.
