Samira wrote:
So, in 1868 it was also unthinkable that a white woman would want to marry a black man, or vice versa. There were, eventually, explicit laws on the books prohibiting such degradation of pure white blood, based on "it's icky", incidentally the same reasoning that went into prohibiting homosexual relationships and, when it occurred to them to do so, marriage.
I said it before and I'll say it again. Marrying a white woman is not a privilege. So, unless you're only attracted to people outside of your race, people were still able to marry someone that they potentially could love. That isn't true with the ban on SSM. A ban on SSM prevents any homosexual from the ability to marry someone that they might realistically love.