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And I ask, Father, that your name would be exalted here.

Help me to be faithful to your word.

Father, I pray again with Chuck for those in the room who don't love Christ, don't lean

on Christ for the salvation of their souls. Don't cleave to Christ as their Savior and Lord and

treasure that you would open their hearts to see in this particular issue that Christ is true.

I pray this in Jesus' name, amen. name. My aim today is to show from scripture and from experience that interracial marriage is not only permitted by the Bible, but is a positive good in our day.

That is, it's not just to be tolerated, it's to be celebrated.

Now that is extremely controversial since it is opposed by people from all sides

racially. For example, in 16 states when I was a college senior in 1967 it was against the law to marry inter-racially. That's real fresh. Laws reflect deeply, deeply held convictions.

And when laws change, convictions don't change necessarily.

When I did a Google search for Martin Luther King slash interracial marriage, the first site that came up was the Ku Klux Klan, which has very

anachronistically this quote on the front page, interracial marriage is a violation of God's law and

a communist ploy to weaken America. Remember the communists? Well, they're still there in China and Cuba and Vietnam and North Korea.

Black opposition is profound and widespread. Lawrence Otis Graham writes,

Interracial marriage undermines African-American ability to introduce our children

to black role models who accept their racial identity with pride.

Conservative white opposition is probably even stronger.

H. Millard wrote,

we are seeing the death of the American

and his replacement with a non-European type who now has enough mass in our society to pervert

European-American ways. White people are going to have to struggle mightily to

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