Re: Texas Polygamists--sf in real life?

David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Paul Ciszek <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> As I remember it, Manny gets arrested after he shows a picture of
>>> his family--and it can be seen that some of them are black.

>> Another novel which was soon made obsolete.  It was published in
>> 1961.  Loving v. Virginia, which overturned all anti-miscegenation
>> laws, was decided in 1967.

> Manny is turned loose fairly quickly, and the general impression is
> that the arrest wasn't legally valid in the first place.

Perhaps because his "crime" of miscegenation wasn't committed in that
state's jurisdiction?

I haven't read the novel in a while.  I re-read all of Heinlein's
novels, in publication order, shortly after he died.  But that, I
see to my amazement, was nearly 20 years ago.
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