re: #175 Escaped Hillbilly

blacks
Amerian Indians
the mentally retarded
the handicapped
imigrants
interracial couples
Mormons
probably a bunch of others.
Somebody on this websight pointed out the problem is we have confouned the religious and social institution of marriage with the legal.

Are you sure about that? In the cases you mention, I am unaware of a popular vote concerning any of them. Laws against miscenegation (inter racial marriage) were thrown out by the SCOTUS in 1967 in Loving V Virginia. I think you have a similar situation regarding laws against “feeble minded” people etc (those were part of the eugenics craze back in the 20s and 30s.) Courts threw them out, but I am unaware of any of them having been emplaced by actual popular vote as has been the case recently.