Are anti-gay marriage amendments the spiritual successors to miscegenation laws?
Columnist and blogger Andrew Sullivan recently speculated that there may be a correlation between states which were slow to legalize miscegenation and states which were quick to ban same-sex marriage. The assumption is that states that banned interracial marriage are fundamentally more intolerant of minorities, and thus the most likely to pursue a legislative agenda that denies legal rights to homosexuals. Below is a list of the 27 states that have passed constitutional amendments banning gay marriage (in chronological order) followed by the dates at which interracial marriage was legalized in the same region.
