There is nothing in the bible or Koran, or any other religious document that I Know of that indicates that inter racial marriage is an issue.
Oh rly? How do you think slavery and anti-miscegenation laws were justified?
Psalm 123:2 (New International Version (NIV)): As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he shows us his mercy.
Ephesians 6:4-6: Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but like slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.
Ephesians 6:5:Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.
Ephesians 6:9:And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.
Colossians 3:22:Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to win their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord.
Colossians 4:1:Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.
Titus 2:9:Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them,
1 Peter 2:18:Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.
Genesis 9:25-27: "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers. He also said, 'Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem. May God extend the territory of Japheth; may Japeth live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his slave'.
God wills all races to be as He made them. Any violation of God’s original purpose manifests insubordination to Him(Acts 17:26; Romans 9:19-24)
God made everything to reproduce “After his own kind” (Genesis 1:11-12, 21-25; 6:20; 7:14). Kind means type and color or He would have kept them all alike to begin with.
God originally determined the bounds of the habitations of nations(Acts 17:26; Genesis 10:5, 32; 11:8; Deuteronomy 32:8)
Miscegenation means the mixture of races, especially the black and white races, or those of outstanding type or color. The Bible even goes farther than opposing this. It is against different branches of the same stock intermarrying such as Jews marrying other descendants of Abraham(Ezra 9-10; Nehemiah 9-13; Jeremiah 50:37; Ezekiel 30:5).
Abraham forbad Eliezer to take a wife for Isaac of Canaanites (Genesis 24:1-4). God was so pleased with this that He directed whom to get (Genesis 24:7, 12-27).
Isaac forbad Jacob to take a wife of the Canaanites (Genesis 27:46-28:7).
Abraham sent all his sons of the concubines, and even of his second wife, far away from Isaac so their descendants would not mix (Genesis 25:1-6)
Esau disobeying this law brought the final break between him and his father after lifelong companionship with him(Genesis 25:28; 26:34-35, 27:46; 28:8-9).
The two branches of Isaac remained segregated forever (Genesis 30; 46:8-26).
Ishmael and Isaac’s descendants remained segregated forever (Genesis 25:12-23; 1 Chronicles 1:29)
Jacob’s sons destroyed a whole city to maintain segregation (Genesis 34)
God forbad intermarriage between Israel and all other nations (Exodus 34:12-16; Deuteronomy 7:5-6)
Joshua forbad the same thing on sentence of death (Joshua 22:12-13)
God cursed angels for leaving their own “first estate” and “their own habitation” to marry the daughters of men (Genesis 6:1-4; 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6-7)
Miscegenation caused Israel to be cursed (Judges 3:6-7; Numbers 25:1-8)
This was Solomon’s sin (I Kings 11)
This was the sin of Jews returning from Babylon (Ezra 9:1-10:2,10-18,44; 13:1-30)
God commanded Israel to be segregated (Leviticus 20:24; Numbers 23:9; 1 Kings 8:53)
Jews recognized as a separate people in all ages because of Gods choice and command (Matthew 10:6; John 1:11). Equal rights in the gospel gives no right to break this eternal law.
Segregation between Jews and all other nations to remain in all eternity (Isaiah 2:2-4; Ezekiel 37; 47:13-48,55; Zechariah 14:16-21; Matthew 19:28; Luke 1:32-33; Revelation 7:1-8; 14:1-5)
All nations will remain segregated from one another in their own parts of the earth forever (Acts 17:26; Genesis 10:5,32; 11:8-9; Deuteronomy 32:8; Daniel 7:13-14; Zechariah 14; Revelation 11:15; 21:24)
Certain people in Israel were not even to worship with others (Deuteronomy 23:1-5; Ezra 10:8; Nehemiah 9:2 10:28; 13:3)
Even in heaven certain groups will not be allowed to worship together (Revelation 7:7-17; 14:1-5; 15:2-5)
Segregation was so strong in the O.T. that an ox and an ass could not work together (Deuteronomy 22:10).
Miscegenation caused disunity among God’s people (Numbers 12).
Stock was forbidden to be bred with other kinds (Leviticus 19:19).
Sowing mixed seed in the same field was unlawful (Leviticus 19:19)
Different seeds were forbidden to be planted in vineyards (Deuteronomy 22:9)
Wearing garments of mixed fabrics forbidden (Deuteronomy 22:11; Leviticus 19:19)
Christians and certain other people of a like race are to be segregated (Matthew 18:15-17; 1 Corinthians 5:9-13; 6:15; 2 Corinthians 6:14-15; Ephesians 5:11; 2 Thessalonians 3:6-16; 1 Timothy 6:5; 2 Timothy 3:5).
As early as 1867, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld segregated railway cars on the grounds that “[t]he natural law which forbids [racial intermarriage] and that social amalgamation which leads to a corruption of races, is as clearly divine as that which imparted to [the races] different natures.” This same rationale was later adopted by state supreme courts in Alabama, Indiana and Virginia to justify bans on interracial marriage, and by justices in Kentucky to support residential segregation and segregated colleges.
In 1901, Georgia Gov. Allen Candler defended unequal public schooling for African Americans on the grounds that “God made them negroes and we cannot by education make them white folks.” After the Supreme Court ordered public schools integrated in Brown v. Board of Education, many segregationists cited their own faith as justification for official racism. Ross Barnett won Mississippi’s governorship in a landslide in 1960 after claiming that “the good Lord was the original segregationist.” Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia relied on passages from Genesis, Leviticus and Matthew when he spoke out against the civil rights law banning employment discrimination and whites-only lunch counters on the Senate floor.
Bob Jones
Although the Supreme Court never considered whether Bilbo, Candler, Barnett or Byrd’s religious beliefs gave them a license to engage in race discrimination, a very similar case did reach the justices in 1983.
Bob Jones University excluded African Americans completely until the early 1970s, when it began permitting black students to attend so long as they were married. In 1975, it amended this policy to permit unmarried African American students, but it continued to prohibit interracial dating, interracial marriage, or even being “affiliated with any group or organization which holds as one of its goals or advocates interracial marriage.” As a result, the Internal Revenue Service revoked Bob Jones’ tax-exempt status.
This decision, that the IRS would no longer give tax subsidies to racist schools even if they claimed that their racism was rooted in religious beliefs, quickly became a rallying point for the Christian Right. Indeed, according to Paul Weyrich, the seminal conservative activist who coined the term “moral majority,” the IRS’ move against schools like Bob Jones was the single most important issue driving the birth of modern day religious conservatism. According to Weyrich, “
t was not the school-prayer issue, and it was not the abortion issue,” that caused this “movement to surface.” Rather it was what Weyrich labeled the “federal government’s move against the Christian schools.”
When Bob Jones’ case reached the Supreme Court, the school argued that IRS’ regulations denying tax exemptions to racist institutions “cannot constitutionally be applied to schools that engage in racial discrimination on the basis of sincerely held religious beliefs.” But the justices did not bite. In an 8-1 decision by conservative Chief Justice Warren Burger, the Court explained that “[o]n occasion this Court has found certain governmental interests so compelling as to allow even regulations prohibiting religiously based conduct.” Prohibiting race discrimination is one of these interests.
1. ANTI-INTERRACIAL State v. Jackson. Missouri (1883): "They cannot possibly have any progeny, and such a fact sufficiently justifies those laws which forbid the intermarriage of blacks and whites."
2. ANTI-INTERRACIAL Scott v. Georgia (1869): "The amalgamation of the races is not only unnatural, but is always productive of deplorable results. Our daily observation shows us, that the offspring of these unnatural connections are generally sickly and effeminate [...]They are productive of evil, and evil only, without any corresponding good."
3. ANTI-INTERRACIAL Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924: The law's stated purpose was to prevent "abominable mixture and spurious issue." It "forbade miscegenation on the grounds that racial mixing was scientifically unsound and would 'pollute' America with mixed-blood offspring."
5. ANTI-INTERRACIAL Senator James R. Doolittle (D-WI), 1863: "By the laws of Massachusetts intermarriages between these races are forbidden as criminal. Why forbidden? Simply because natural instinct revolts at it as wrong."
6. ANTI-INTERRACIAL Scott v. Sandford (1857), Chief Justice Taney: "Intermarriages between white persons and negroes or mulattoes were regarded as unnatural and immoral."
7. ANTI-INTERRACIAL Lonas v. State (1871): Attorneys argued that intermarriage was "distasteful to our people, and unfit to produce the human race in any of the types in which it was created." Tennessee's court agreed, saying that "any effort to intermerge the individuality of the races as a calamity full of the saddest and gloomiest portent to the generations that are to come after us."
8. ANTI-INTERRACIAL Bob Jones University, (1998!!!): "Although there is no verse in the Bible that dogmatically says that races should not intermarry, the whole plan of God as He has dealt with the races down through the ages indicates that interracial marriage is not best for man."
“I do not recognize, I have never recognized, I cannot recognize that what the Supreme Court says is the law of the land.”
“In ruling after ruling, the Supreme Court has overstepped its constitutional authority. While appearing to protect the people’s interest, it has in reality become a judicial tyrant.”
“To those who would overthrow the customs, morals, and traditions of a way of life which has endured in honor and decency for centuries and embrace a new moral code prepared by [judges] in Washington whose moral concepts they know nothing about … let me make it abundantly clear … I will not yield to that which I know to be wrong.”
“The Supreme Court is not the law of the land, and [you don’t] have to obey it.”
“All of us know what the court has done to capture the minds of our children.”
“I was not elected governor … to surrender all our rights as citizens to an all-powerful federal autocracy. … This issue is now where all public issues belong—in your hands, the hands of the people. … Public sentiment is with you in this struggle to preserve our legal and time-honored rights.”
“[This ruling is] the most serious blow that has been struck against the rights of the states … a crisis of the first magnitude.”
“A left-wing monster has risen up in this nation. It has invaded the government. It has invaded the news media. … It has invaded every phase and aspect of the life of freedom-loving people. … We must revitalize a government founded in this nation on faith in God.”
Quotes from politicians about the abhorrent Brown v. Board of Education and other desegregation rulings. Straight out of the mouths of Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, etc. Republicans today = Southern Democrats of 60 years ago.
10. ANTI-INTERRACIAL From a submitted briefing to the Court on Loving v. Virginia: "I believe that the tendency to classify all persons who oppose [this type of relationship] as 'prejudiced' is in itself a prejudice," a psychologist said. "Nothing of any significance is gained by such a marriage."
“I do not recognize, I have never recognized, I cannot recognize that what the Supreme Court says is the law of the land.”
“In ruling after ruling, the Supreme Court has overstepped its constitutional authority. While appearing to protect the people’s interest, it has in reality become a judicial tyrant.”
“To those who would overthrow the customs, morals, and traditions of a way of life which has endured in honor and decency for centuries and embrace a new moral code prepared by [judges] in Washington whose moral concepts they know nothing about … let me make it abundantly clear … I will not yield to that which I know to be wrong.”
“The Supreme Court is not the law of the land, and [you don’t] have to obey it.”
“All of us know what the court has done to capture the minds of our children.”
“I was not elected governor … to surrender all our rights as citizens to an all-powerful federal autocracy. … This issue is now where all public issues belong—in your hands, the hands of the people. … Public sentiment is with you in this struggle to preserve our legal and time-honored rights.”
“[This ruling is] the most serious blow that has been struck against the rights of the states … a crisis of the first magnitude.”
“A left-wing monster has risen up in this nation. It has invaded the government. It has invaded the news media. … It has invaded every phase and aspect of the life of freedom-loving people. … We must revitalize a government founded in this nation on faith in God.”
Quotes from politicians about the abhorrent Brown v. Board of Education and other desegregation rulings. Straight out of the mouths of Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, etc. Republicans today = Southern Democrats of 60 years ago.
Sorry equality upsets you so much, but as we see above if anyone here is low-information and poorly informed, it's you. So much hate inside you must really raise your blood pressure to an unhealthy level.
