[T]here is a striking similarity between the arguments used to justify anti-miscegenation laws and the arguments put forward today against gay marriage. Tradition, a respect for majority opinion, religion, science, sociology - all were invoked with great somberness and much citation of experts and their research. The prejudice that propped up all the arguments - and, for us, invalidates them - was invisible or inevitable to their proponents. ...Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents, their sentencing judge decreed. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.
The Washingon Post, in a column on gay marriage. (2003)