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BJU and Mormon Church
Written by A.D. Powell, on 19-10-1998 07:49
In regard to the views of Bob Jones University and the Mormon Church regarding "interracial" marriages, you should ask them exactly how they define the various "races." Do they condemn interracial marriages between "whites" and "American Indians," for example? I'm betting that they don't define intemarriage between "whites" and "Indians" as "miscegenation." I'm also betting that the Mormon Church is easy on white/Asian marriages - especially if the groom is "white" and the bride is a pretty, petite and not too dark Asian.

I'm betting that, in both churches, "interracial" is defined mainly in terms of "white" with "black."

By the way, the Mormon Church's (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) theology once condemned (until the 1980s) blacks as accursed "children of Ham" who were not entitled to full membership in the Church or marriage with other "races." What changed that was the Church's expansion into Latin America. They were confronted by thousands of Latin American converts who happily assumed the duties of the Mormon priesthood (mandatory for all males - at the time, all non-"black" males) even though they were obviously of Negroid ancestry. They knew they were part "black" but they were not "blacks," so obviously the Church's prohibition didn't apply to them.

The Church couldn't very well tell all these Latin Americans that they were "black," so their Prophet or supreme leader annnounced that he had had a revelation from God taking away the curse from blacks. That solved the problem - anything to avoid dealing with the reality of racial intermixture.

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