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I happened to catch the interview. Savannah Gutherie pressed him that his opposition to gay marriage was the same as the previous discriminatory laws preventing interracial marriage. I don’t think he responded all that well. He failed to point out that the opposition to gay marriage involved protecting the from day one historical male female institution of marriage itself, and that opposition to interracial marriage was about race, not about the male female institution of marriage.

Yeah. I thought his response to the effect that there was no religious backing of the prohibition against interracial marriages opened him up to the counter-argument (which has already popped up on leftist sites, if you google for the Cruz interview) that there were, in fact, religious arguments made against interracial marriages.

There is nothing in the Bible saying it is wrong to date or marry a person of a different race.

There are a few incidental mentions of race in the Bible (e.g., that Ethiopian’s skin was different, Jeremiah 13:23), but there is nothing saying one race is superior to another. Moses was married to a Cushite (Ethiopian) woman (Numbers 12:1-16), and God was angry with Aaron and Miriam for criticizing that marriage.

The Hebrews were forbidden to marry Canaanites and other pagan peoples (Exodus 34:11-16; Deuteronomy 7:1-3). The reason was because those people worshipped idols, not because of race; the Hebrews, Amorites, Canaanites, etc. were racially similar.

The apostle Paul encouraged Christians not to marry unbelievers (2 Corinthians 6:14), but here again, the reason was religious, not racial.

Jesus and His apostles taught that we must respect and show compassion for all people of God’s creation without regard to artificial distinctions like race and nationality. In His Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), Jesus told of a Samaritan man who was kind to a Jewish man even thought they were enemies of different religions, nationalities and racial backgrounds. At the end, Jesus tells us, “Go and do likewise.”

The apostle Paul stated the equality of all people without regard to racial/ethnic background, social status, etc.:

“You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:26-28)

WHEN TED CRUZ SAYS THERE IS NO RELIGIOUS BACKING FOR DENYING INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE HE IS TELLING THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH! REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SOME WRONG-HEADED PEOPLE CLAIM THERE ARE RELIGIOUS GROUNDS, THERE ARE NONE!

L. Ron Hubbard claimed his Scientology was a religion. If a Scientologist were to object to homosexual marriage, would this be ‘religious’ grounds to object? No! It’s absurd on its face.

To claim anything is objectionable on religious grounds requires a clear reference to scripture for the objection to be credible. There are no such objections.