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Pastor Ken Hutcherson is black. His wife is white. This used to be illegal.

“Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay, and red, and he placed them on separate continents,” a Virginia trial judge wrote in 1959 when he ordered an interracial couple to leave the state. “And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that He separated the races shows that He did not intend for the races to mix.” In 1967, however, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the Virginia law, making marriages like Hutcherson’s possible.

So begins the article (Sims vs. Hutcherson) by Josh Feit of Seattle’s The Stranger newspaper.

Sims vs. Hutcherson Debate
Thurs March 2, Town Hall,
1119 Eighth Ave, 7:30 pm,
$5 at the door.