Last week's death of former Republican Georgia state Sen. Mike Crotts, author of the state's 2004 constitutional ban on gay marriage, got me thinking about this generation's premier culture warrior: another Georgian, named Clarence Thomas.
In his concurring opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court Justice Thomas said the quiet part out loud — that the work of the six conservative justices could be just beginning.
Thomas urged the court to revisit precedent-setting cases like Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell, which — respectively — legalized the rights to contraception, same-sex sexual relationships and gay marriages. He notably forgot Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 Supreme Court case which struck down bans on interracial marriage and was settled along the same lines of those other cases. I can't imagine why a Black man married to a white woman wouldn't mention that case.
