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In Christianity, the Bible is God’s Word. There isn’t a single place within all sixty-six books that condemn people from marrying
a person of another skin color for racial reasons. There are figures in the Bible who actually did marry outside their race. The first laws against interracial marriage came about during the colonial period. A colony in Maryland in 1661 passed miscegenation laws because there were many cases of intermarriage between white female servants and African American slaves. The laws came about because people were wondering how to classify and what to do with the offspring from these relationships. Many people were confused with these children’s standing in society.
The myth of white racism being pure has been an idea in existence supported by slave societies and thus far it has survived hundreds of years to support the hierarchy that the state of Virginia, in the Loving v. Virginia case tried to maintain. Miscegenation laws had been upheld because they were supposedly based on the “laws of God and the laws of property, morality and social order…[that] have been exercised by all civilized governments in all ages of the world (Interracialism).” Virginia had declared miscegenation laws valid because they were “natural law which forbids their intermarriage and the social amalgamation which leads to a corruption of races is as clearly divine as that which imparted them to different natures (Interracialism).”
