Thumbs Down on the D&C's Dumb Idea

Mildred Loving died this week.  Her obituary was in the New York Times.  She was 68.  Who was Mildred Loving?  A black woman who fell in love with a white man  back in 1958 and had the audacity to marry him even though the law said no, that was forbidden.

Mildred and Richard Loving married in Washington, DC, then moved back to Virginia where the law said that a marriage between people of different races was invalid even though it was performed in a place where it was legal.