The concerns about racial purity were also reflected in opposition to interracial marriage framed in terms of Christian religious beliefs. A common argument against interracial marriage in the South of America, was that God had created distinct races and intended for hem to remain separate. Interracial marriages violated God’s plan for man. Marrying interracially was a sin in violation of biblical teachings. A Virginia judge ruled in 1959 that “Almighty God created the race white, black, yellow, malay and red…The fact the he separated the races shows that he did not intend for them to intermarry.
