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Category Archives: Race

A Reader Protests

  A reader takes very strong exception to comments I made during the discussion on interracial marriage. I respond that the denial of racial differences is used to excuse grave moral wrongs and is un-Christian. Below are her remarks and my response.                                                                                             

Marriage and the Merging of Worlds

  Sheila Coyne writes in regard to the recent discussion on intermarriage: I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about this thread, and thought I’d add a comment. I was raised in a liberal, agnostic, culturally Jewish household and as a teenager spouted the usual liberal platitudes – what’s inside is what matters, love transcends all, [...]

Race and Family, cont.

  In the continuing discussion on interracial marriage, commenter Van Wijk, who is white, looks beyond the issue of whether mixed race individuals suffer from identity conflicts and flat-out states that miscegenation is wrong. In his comments, which can be found here, he writes: Let me also state that I find it disturbing that the Christian religion [...]

Race and Culture vs. Family

  The discussion continues in the post, The View from One Interracial Marriage. Laura H., a mother of eight children and a white woman married to a black man stationed in the military in Germany, has been accused of not understanding the innate need for cultural and racial connection. She continues to resolutely defend herself, maintaining that her children [...]

The View from One Interracial Marriage

   Last week, a reader wrote to me about my past entries on interracial marriage and adoption. The reader, Laura H., is a white woman married to a black man. Her husband is in the military in Germany and the entire family lives there.  Here is our exchange, as well as some additional comments by [...]