Interracial Wedding: Interracial Couples

interracial wedding: I have not yet counselled an interracial wedding where someone didn't have a problem on the bride's or the groom's side, said Rev, according to Hamilton Spectator. Kimberly Lucas of St. Although the racist laws against mixed marriages are gone, several interracial couples said in interviews they still get nasty looks, insults and sometimes even violence when people find out about their relationships. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. She often counsels engaged interracial couples through the prism of her own 20-year marriage Lucas is black and her husband, Mark Retherford, is white. Interracial marriages became legal nationwide on June 12, 1967, after the Supreme Court threw out a Virginia law that sent police into the Lovings' bedroom to arrest them just for being who they were a married black woman and white man. I think for a lot of people it's OK if it's 'out there' and it's other people but when it comes home and it's something that forces them to confront their own internal demons and their own prejudices and assumptions, it's still really hard for people, she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.