Tim, what you say here is simply incorrect. You are wrong to say that those who opposed interracial marriage defined marriage as a union between people of the same ethnicity. They did not. They acknowledged that it was possible for a black man and white woman to get married. They accepted that this would meet the definition of marriage. Their problem with these unions is not that they weren't marriage, their problem is that they thought it was *wrong* to mix the races. See the difference?