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Date: January 11, 2012 09:06AM
Is that why Spencer W. Kimball discouraged interracial marriage? He said that 90 percent of temple marriages did not end in divorce. A black wife could not be married in the temple to a white male. Maybe he was worried that the marriage would fail because it did not have temple blessings?
He gave the talk in 1976, before the priesthood ban was lifted.
http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=6136"We are grateful that this one survey reveals that about 90 percent of the temple marriages hold fast. Because of this, we recommend that people marry those who are of the same racial background generally, and of somewhat the same economic and social and educational background (some of those are not an absolute necessity, but preferred), and above all, the same religious background, without question."