Progress To Celebrate

A young lady from Texas married a gentleman from Virginia on Saturday, under the watchful but misty eye of her father, a former governor of Texas. The couple are both white, the pastor an African-American.

Given who the newly married couple is, and who their father is, one has to ask -- would such a thing have happened 40 years ago? It is remarkable that this aspect of the event is considered unremarkable, isn't it?