Each person seeking a license to marry the "wrong" kind of person, finds himself barred by law from marrying the person of his choice and that person to him may be irreplaceable. Human beings are bereft of worth and dignity by a doctrine that would make them as interchangeable as trains. -California Supreme Court, 1948, in re Perez v. Sharp overturning California's prohibition on interracial marriage

Then, in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virgina, struck down the remaining interracial marriage laws nation-wide. A Virginia judge had upheld that state's ban on interracial marriages, invoking God's intention to separate the races. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned his decision, declaring that:

• the “freedom to marry” belongs to all Americans;
• marriage is one of our “vital personal rights” and
• the right to marry is “essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by a
  free [people].”

Interracial marriage was allowed everywhere.  By then, 39 states had state amendments and laws prohibiting interracial marriage.  An "activist" supreme court, in one ruling, turned the tables 180 degrees.

It's time.  It's time.