Questions & Ethics: What if my parents don’t support my interracial marriage?
The Russell Moore Show
Russell Moore
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🗓️ 1 May 2015
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:39.2 | or lowercase. That Shopify dot. Eke slash special offer. Welcome back to the Questions and Ethics Program with Russell Moore. I'm Daniel Patterson and |
| 1:03.7 | Dr Moore today we have a question from a listener who sent in said I'm engaged |
| 1:08.4 | we are an interracial couple but we are dealing with parents who disagree strongly with our |
| 1:14.9 | engagement. How would you counsel them to deal with a situation like that? |
| 1:18.8 | Well I mean the first question that I would have is do they disagree with the engagement because they are an |
| 1:24.6 | interracial couple? |
| 1:26.8 | It may be that I mean that question could mean that they disagree with the engagement for other |
| 1:32.2 | reasons and you would want to say what are those reasons. |
| 1:35.9 | So if the parents are saying we disagree with this marriage because we don't think that the person |
| 1:42.2 | you're marrying is of good character. |
| 1:44.0 | Well, you ought to take that into consideration. |
| 1:46.0 | If the parents are saying, we disagree with this engagement because you're not willing or capable |
| 1:52.0 | to support yourselves, we don't trust that. Well then |
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