The moral reason of Loving v. Virginia case at the time period was under the Anti-miscegenation law of Virginia. African Americans were not allowed to cohabitate with whites regarding interracial marriages. Constitutionally, in reference to interracial marriages, the petitioner loving claimed equal protection under the law. As part of the Fourteenth Amendment the equal protection clause referred to the anti-miscegenation law of Virginia unconstitutional which discriminated Loving and his wife based upon their race. However, the anti-miscegenation law equally punished both whiter and Negroes population as a result to the equal protection clause which did not constitute invidious discrimination based upon race. According to the Virginia statue,
