Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967),<1> was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, declared Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute, the "Racial Integrity Act of 1924", unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States. wikipedia

From the decision:

Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival.... To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discrimination. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.

And yet, today, we, GLB folks, have to continue to fight for our right to marry. Our right to marry should not be a position on which people need to evolve. It shouldn't be a position which people are willing to compromise or demand we "wait for a better time."

Support marriage rights for GLB people!

(hat tip to alp227 for his post: Today in history: Medgar Evers, Loving v. Virginia, "Tear down this wall", and Filipino independence)