Fred Karger and his group, Rights Equal Rights, today published the above ad for marriage equality in the Washington Post. The image is clear, but the text makes it crystal: U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas was legally prohibited from marrying his current wife, Ginny Thomas, until the Supreme Court ruled in 1967 that banning interracial marriage was unconstitutional.
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“Rights Equal Rights (formerly Californian’s Against Hate) is running this ad in Washington Post for five days beginning today,” Karger writes in an email:
Rights Equal Rights was founded nearly five years ago to help make same-sex marriage the law of the land.
“We are now on the cusp of full equality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans,†said Fred Karger president of Rights Equal Rights. The United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments to overturn California’s Proposition 8 on Tuesday, March 26th. The parallels to the 1967 case Loving v. Virginia that allowed interracial marriage in this country are so striking, that we paid for this ad. We hope that the nine Justices of the Supreme Court will take this into consideration as they hear oral arguments next week and decide the “Case of the Century.â€
Karger, the first gay Republican to run for president, has done an excellent job of holding NOM’s feet to the fire, having sued them and challenged their poor financial reporting, for starters.
Justice Thomas, frankly, given his association, and his wife’s association, with the Tea Party, should recuse himself from many several cases the Court has and is taking up.
But that would require an objective, introspective mind, unencumbered by politics.
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