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Title: Interracial Marriage

Comments: I don't care either way, Brigham seemed to, though! He said that mixing with the seed of Cain warranted blood atonement (death) on the spot, and that it would always be so. JS had a revelation about taking Indian brides as polygamous wives so that the Indians would be more peaceful with the Mormons~ The more modern prophets have changed their tune about this as with just about everything else that has been the root doctrines of the church in order to be more socially correct.

Source 1: Book of Mormon
Source 2: Journal of Discourses

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I understand the idea behind marrying someone of your own race/ethnicity. It causes less stress, nevertheless I married someone outside my ethnicity and outside my culture almost 10 years ago and I couldn't be happier. He is a wonderful, talented and great man.

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Young taught that it was a curse upon your bloodline to mingle (Sexually) with the descendents of cain (Very directly in his 1852 legislature speech, and again in volume 10 of the journal of discourses as published by the early church - which reads: Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so. ). Of course, that was also during the same time when he barred blacks from holding the priesthood. The priesthood was given back to black men in the 1970s.

I suppose my perspective would be to point out how mixed our races are today, already... One would also have to distinguish whether it were a sin to mix only whites and blacks, or if it is also a sin for whites to mix with natives or Asians, or for natives to mix with blacks, whom mixed race persons are permitted to marry, and so forth. Natives, as expressed in the book of Mormon, were cursed with dark skin in direct correlation with their sin - not due to their heritage - so, then, natives would not be affected by the curse of Cain by lineage. Would they, too, be considered a curse to 'mix' with?

Then, you take into account many of the things Kimball said in the more recent years of the church; Kimball professed that interracial marriage is not a sin - but that it is bad for the family unit - when Kimball was president of the church, times were still very rough for interracial couples - his policies were in place in an effort to prevent social and economical hardships on families.

Today, there is no 'policy' in place... Utah repealed it's anti-interracial marriage laws over forty years ago.. While a lot of congregations may still discourage such things, it does not appear to be a commandment not to.

It's a tough question. One that members have to answer for themselves based on the teachings of various prophets, scriptures, and prayer.

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I don't see anything against it. I think that in the Millennium we will all have the same skin color so in the end it won't matter.

Relationships Marriages Interracial LDS

I don't see anything wrong with it however I could understand the challenges they may face with the world. I never dated anyone outside my race but it's not an issue for me.

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I could understand the challenges that arise when two people are from different races but come on peeps we're in modern times and all those thoughts of prejudice should be put away!

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If they are not members of the church you can always try to convert them later to the gospel.

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Most church leaders have taught that "true" love is something you decide to build with someone over time, so it would be unwise to build that with someone you could not make an eternal covenant with. As far as hoping they convert that would be a huge crap shoot, and I could be very possible that you never get the chance to enter into an eternal marriage.