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Originally Posted by TheOperative
Not that it's wrong, but interracial marriages and their eventual offspring will have more hardships because of it. That's just the way it is.
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That's true enough, because there are still enough people who think it's "wrong," and those who are just plain prejudiced. They will give the children a hard time one way or another. As children, they will likely be taunted, because children are cruel. As adults, they are likely to be "unacceptable" to some people of either race. Fortunately, that is not as bad as it used to be.
I remember a Sunday School class where the teacher used the story of how the people of Israel put away their foreign wives, because their children were being brought up in a pagan religion, and even some of the husbands fell for it, as a call against interracial marriage. Of course, it had nothing to do with race, but religion. What was worse, there was a Japanese lady in the class who was married to a white man - except that, not very obvious, he was also part American Indian. I often wondered how she felt. I was too timid in those days to speak up. Much earlier, I was in a Sunday School class in which interracial marriage was discussed, and one man simply said, as a backup for his belief that it was wrong, "I don't believe in it!" Of the scripture passage mentioned above, I remember hearing many years ago about a South African preacher using it to support apartheid. I guess you can twist scripture to support anything you want to believe.