Public Opinion Of Interracial Marriage In The United States
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Public opinion Public opinion is the collective opinion on a specific topic or voting intention relevant to a society. It is the people's views on matters affecting them. Etymology The term "public opinion" was derived from the French ', which was first use ...
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interracial marriage in the United States Interracial marriage has been legal throughout the United States since at least the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court (Warren Court) decision '' Loving v. Virginia'' (1967) that held that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional via the 14th Amendm ...
has changed substantially since the 1940s. Today, support for
interracial marriage Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities. In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States, Nazi Germany and apartheid-era South Africa as miscegenation. In 1 ...
is near-universal. Opposition to interracial marriage was frequently based on religious principles. The overwhelming majority of white Southern
evangelical Christians Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual exper ...
saw racial segregation, including on matters of marriage, as something that was divinely instituted from God. They held that legal recognition of interracial couples would violate biblical teaching and hence their
religious liberty Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance. It also includes the freedom ...
. This position was held by prominent evangelical denominations such as the Southern Baptist Convention until the late-20th century.


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Public opinion of same-sex marriage in the United States Public opinion of same-sex marriage in the United States has changed dramatically since the late 1980s, and by the early 2020s an overwhelming majority of Americans approved of the legality of these marriages. A December 2022 ''Quinnipiac Unive ...


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Interracial marriage Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities. In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States, Nazi Germany and apartheid-era South Africa as miscegenation. In 1 ...