Should Race Or Religion Matters When Choosing A Mate Or Interfaith Marriage

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In 2017, “More than 3 million people in the US are interracially married” (Lee & Edmonston, 2005, p.9). Interracial or interfaith marriage is when two people of different races or religions get married, which is also known as intermarriage. Intermarriage is starting to become a trend and a hot topic of discussion. Some people believe that race or religion should matter when choosing a mate or spouse, and others believe race or religion should not matter. Race or religion should not matter when choosing a mate/spouse because it is becoming a trend/accepted, and there are options for interfaith relationships, such as support groups and multi-religion marriage ceremonies. …show more content…

According to Lee and Edmonston (2005), a Gallop poll showed “...85 percent of Black, 79 percent of Hispanics, and 66 percent of White respondents would accept a child or grandchild marrying someone of a different race” (p.1). Many people are accepting of interfaith/interracial marriage nowadays. This means that most people do not have to worry about their family’s opinions when choosing a mate or spouse. If a person’s family cared about family purity and did not want them to have an interracial marriage, this could eliminate many great potential mates for this particular person. The article “Interracial Marriage”, (2014) covers the topic of interfaith marriage when it states, “In 1970 Black-White marriages in the United States totaled about 65,000. By 2005 this number had reached about 422,000”. This shows that it was becoming more socially acceptable to marry outside of …show more content…

Jean Tutts story is a perfect example of this. Jean Tutt was a freshman at Harper College, was Jewish, a Democrat, and had a button down cardigan style. Her soon to be husband, Brian Saucier, was quite the opposite. He was a Republican, Roman Catholic, had long hair and wore a denim jacket with skulls on it. But none of this mattered, because they started dating, and eventually decided to get married. They were married by both a priest, and a rabbi (Hanes, 2014). Despite the fact that Jean and Brian had different religions, they still got married. When getting married, one of them could make a compromise, and give up his/her faith, or they could have a multi-religion marriage, as they did. These two believed that race or religion should not matter when choosing a mate/spouse, and proved it to the world. In the article “Interfaith America: ‘Being Both’ Is A Rising Trend in the US”, Hanes (2014) states, “Then they discovered the Jewish-Catholic Couples Dialogue Group - a support network for interfaith couples that was connected to the Chicago Interfaith Family School, which taught both Catholicism and Judaism.” Not only can a couple have a multi-faith marriage, but their kids can learn both religions from a support group. This is great for

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