Wesley Webster

About the author: Wesley Webster is a writer and a minister in the Worldwide Church of God, an international Christian church based in Pasadena, California.

Those who cite biblical passages to prove that God prohibits interracial marriage are misinterpreting scripture. The passages often cited forbid marriage between those of different faiths, not different races. Many prominent figures in the Bible, among them Moses and David, were married to women of different races. Other important figures of the Bible, including Solomon and Jesus, were of racially mixed ancestry. Racist thinking was so firmly woven into the American consciousness during the Jim Crow period of American history that it led many Christians to interpret the Bible through a haze of racial prejudice.

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