Congress gave final approval to a bill requiring all states to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages. It passed the House with nearly 40 Republicans joining Democrats in support.

In 2022, President Joe Biden repealed the Defense of Marriage Act — a 1996 law that limited ... to recognize the validity of same-sex and interracial marriages in the United States.

The three most important blocks of legislation were: The Race Classification Act. Every citizen suspected of not being European was classified according to race. The Mixed Marriages Act.

As Deeb observes, “Marriage is an act of hope,” and conflict related to marriage proves ... In part, this is because there is no legal mechanism for such mixed marriages; personal status law, which ...