# Hell freezes over.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-freezes-over/688117>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 10, 2014, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-freezes-over/688117 "2014-05-10T06:02:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-freezes-over/688117/1 "2014-05-10T06:02:17Z")

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Hell freezes over. [Judge opens door to gay weddings in Arkansas.](http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Judge-opens-door-to-gay-weddings-in-Arkansas-5467586.php) Piazza cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1967 decision that invalidated laws on interracial marriage. [Here.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia)

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-freezes-over/688117/2 "2014-05-11T19:03:48Z")

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It’s the right decision, but the judge’s comment contains one minor error:

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> “It has been over 40 years since Mildred Loving was given the right to marry the person of her choice,” Piazza wrote, referring to that ruling. “The hatred and fears have long since vanished and she and her husband lived full lives together; so it will be for the same-sex couples. …”

The husband in that case, Richard Perry Loving, died at 41 in a car crash with a drunk driver. Pity, really.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-freezes-over/688117/3 "2014-05-11T19:59:58Z")

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[Another thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=723102).

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**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-freezes-over/688117/4 "2014-05-12T01:40:50Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> It’s the right decision, but the judge’s comment contains one minor error:
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> The husband in that case, Richard Perry Loving, died at 41 in a car crash with a drunk driver. Pity, really.

Yeah Bryan Ekers, I picked up on that one too. Even money sez he did one of these afterwards: :smack:

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-freezes-over/688117/5 "2014-05-12T02:31:05Z")

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**Little Pig** , we ask that people use descriptive thread titles, which you didn’t. And since there’s already a thread on the topic – one with, oddly enough, a descriptive thread title, which means you would have been able to find it had you looked – I’ll close this one.