MARRIAGE EQUALITY NATIONWIDE

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A fraternal order is a term that includes sororities. Greek Fraternities and Sororities are clubs, and as such can choose their membership. It is not a right to be able to join a Fraternity.

Marriage is a right, that the Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote about in the unanimous decision for the aforementioned Loving v. Virginia:

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.

Are you saying that Earl Warren was wrong in his interpretation of the Constitution?

I agree with Justice Warren. This decision was aimed at interracial marriage. There wasn't any same sex marriage at that time and marriage was defined as being between a man and a woman, so when he spoke of marriage, that is what he was referring to.