During the time period that you are referring marriage was defined by the Church, which has never sanctioned queer marriage. Yet interracial marriage was common throughout history. The Norms descended from Vikings and bred with the French, Germans, English and Irish. During WWI French woman married native men from Africa. Shakespeare wrote about interracial marriage in Othello.
Stop being retarded.
Again, you make up facts to support your position that are just not accurate. It was not defined by the church. The States implemented laws barring black-white marriages from the very start of the colonies and almost immediately as they became States.
It was not truly legal before the laws addressed miscegenation anymore than homosexual marriage was legal before the laws addressed that subject, because the courts would not recognize such marriages. BOTH were always a nullity in the eyes of the law.
You can find churches that will recognize homosexual marriage, just as I am sure you could find some that recognized black-white marriages before the miscegenation laws were overturned. That does not change the fact that the law did not recognize them.
English and Irish (or any of the others you mention) are not considered seperate races, dumbfuck. Racial classifications are arbitrary but nobody has ever divided it in such a way so as to consider nationality as synonymous with race.
Possibly, the French woman in WW I marrying a native African would have been considered interracial, but with your silly attempts to claim that an Irish-English marriage was interracial, that's not at all clear.
Besides that, if we are going to use what was allowed in other nations after our founding, then many nations now recognize homosexual marriage. Where does that leave you?
You guys claim that you want to protect THE traditional definition of marriage. When it is pointed out to you what that would mean in practice, you come back with, "well, not that tradition." You mean the tradition that you came up with yesterday, but not before. Then like an over worked Winston, you start shoving all facts from history that contradict your position down the memory hole and attempt to change the common meaning of other words (like "race" or "legal") to fit. It's just a bunch of newspeak bullshit, that the courts are likely to reject.