Why you can't get married: an unwedding album

"[E]xamines the issue of same-sex marriage through the lens of the past. The very arguments used to oppose interracial marriage in generations past have been recycled for use against same-sex marriage. Comparing state codes, legal opinions, public hearings, and political pronouncements, it becomes apparent that the arguments aren't just similar, but nearly identical. The book ends with a ray of hope, presenting Mildred Loving's statement on the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Supreme Court decision, Loving vs. Virginia, which legalized interracial marriage in all fifty states. She stated in part, 'I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sexual orientation, should have [the] freedom to marry.' An up-to-the-moment pairing on the back cover compares the dissenting opinion from the 1948 case that struck down the California Miscegenation Law, with Antonin Scalia's dissenting opinion in the U.S. Supreme Court's 2013 decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. The Unwedding Album's prettiness stands in stark contrast to the ugliness of the language of bias framed within, a reminder that there's still a way to go to before freedom to marry can be equally applied as a human and civil right in the U.S."-- Artist's website, viewed on March 26, 2015."[G]atefold pages. Laser offset. Bound in full-page wraps with double wire-o binding"--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on March 26, 2015."Historic images of real-life interracial couples appropriated from internet sources. Images of contemporary (likely staged) same-sex couples licensed from stock photo sources. Texts excerpted verbatim from court documents, state codes, and public political pronouncements"--Colophon.Cover title. Edition statement from artist's website.Softcover edition is comprised of 300 unnumbered copies, some signed by the artist. Also issued in a hardcover edition of 25 signed and numbered copies.