Imagine if someone remade this movie with a gay couple.
In honor of Martin Luther King, our student senate decided to show Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? during dinner. I’ve seen it before, so I didn’t have to worry about being distracted by everything else that was going on in the café.
One of the professors briefly interrupted the movie to give some background about the movie. She spent a good deal of time talking about interracial marriage, the attitude of many people in the ’60s against it, the statements then made about how it was “unnatural” and “unbiblical”, how the courts eventually declared the laws against interracial marriage to be unconstitutional (and how great that was), and how it was a great step forward for civil rights.
“Now, for fun,” I told the people at my table, “take every time she said ‘interracial’ and replace it with ‘gay.’ ”
They reacted with some horror, which was fun to watch. But considering her speech, the protests against interracial marriage were so parallel to the current protests against gay marriage that I couldn’t help wondering how we’ll see the present-day issue of gay marriage in 40 years.