My parents (father black/mother white) were married in 1969. My father was then stationed at Fort Knox (KY) when my mom was pregnant with my brother.
Those were tough times. Religious reasons or not - it took toughness and tenacity to live in that den of vipers in Kentucky. It takes toughness and tenacity to be mixed race in America today - and/or be married across color lines (Married April 15 - husband is immigrant from Italy 
).
My only caution - Gay Marriage will be a reality in this lifetime. It will be. But I hope and pray the glbt community is really aware -
Your marriage will not change the dark ugly soul of this country. We can no more help being bigots at heart than a lion can help hunting prey. I.E. It will only make it legal.
A better comparison is to slavery - than it is to gay marriage. There is still a LARGE chunk of folks in this country that have a dismissal in their hearts towards black people. Oh - they smile at us and are pleasant but they truly think we are 'sub human'. It's been what? 146 years?
Just be prepared that there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. It's the beginning - not an end in and of itself. 
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