We get a surprising number of questions on interracial marriage and we take them very seriously.

We should take them seriously and they come to us very seriously. This one comes from a young

Asian American woman who writes, Dear Pastor John, my boyfriend and I are both believers in Christ

and have been dating for almost 18 months. We love each other very much and really want to be married.

However, my boyfriend has a conscience struggle because he has been told in the past that

interracial marriage is a sin. We are of different nationalities, although we were born in the same

city and country and race in the same high school. The only thing different about us is our

skin color and cultural differences that every family has. My boyfriend really is trying to look

at God's word to see what God teaches on the issue of interracial marriage. He's listening

to many good terms on the topic but he still finds in his conscience like it may be wrong to marry

someone from another ethnic background. This causes him lots of heartache because he has the

desire to marry me. What would you say to me and to my boyfriend? Well, this question goes very

deep with me because my opposition to interracial marriage was the foundation, at least the conscious

foundation of my opposition to integration, my opposition to lots of good things and my support

for segregation as a teenager in South Carolina when I was growing up. I think it was the origin

of most of my deplorable attitudes towards other races in those days. I wasn't just taught

that it was a sin. I believed it was a sin. I don't take this struggle lightly and I very much would

love to persuade this young man that biblically his conscience should be clear in marrying a godly

Christ exalting otherwise compatible woman, whatever race she is. That's what I hope I can do.

Now I know and I was one and I was related to hundreds. I know that among thousands of Christians

there is a conviction that this kind of opposition to interracial marriage is grounded in scripture.

The scripture teaches it's wrong to marry across races. Now here's an example from a letter that I got

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