When conservative Americans say that same-sex marriage is a threat to traditional values, I think it’s fair to say that they echo the debate about interracial marriage fifty years ago. In 1948, ninety-four per cent (94%) of white Americans opposed a reform that would allow people of different colour to marry. Those who complain about yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling in California and call it “judicial activism” should be reminded of the fact that it was the court system that legalized interracial marriage in 1967.