Nine states plus the District of Columbia have approved same-sex marriage. What will the Supreme Court do? Is the issue the same as the right to interracial marriage which was affirmed with Loving vs. the State of Virginia in 1967? “I think they’re different cases,” said Laura Little, professor at Temple’s Beasley School of Law. “First of all, we’re at a different point in history. With same-sex marriage, we’re still at the beginning. Loving vs. Virginia came at the other side of the curve.”