In "Obergefell v. Hodges" (2015), the Supreme Court invoked "Loving", among other cases, as precedent for its holding that states are required to allow same-sex marriages under both the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause of the Constitution. The court's decision in "Obergefell" cited "Loving" nearly a dozen times, and was based on the same principles – equality and an unenumerated right to marriage. During oral argument, the eventual author of the majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy, noted that the ruling holding racial segregation unconstitutional and the ruling holding bans on interracial marriage unconstitutional ("Brown v. Board of Education" in 1954 and "Loving v. Virginia" in 1967, respectively) were made about 13 years apart, much like the ruling holding bans on same-sex sexual activity unconstitutional and the eventual ruling holding bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional ("Lawrence v. Texas" in 2003 and "Obergefell v. Hodges" in 2015, respectively).