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- In the past, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) have consistently opposed marriages between members of different ethnicities, though interracial marriage is no longer considered a sin. In 1977, apostle Boyd K. Packer publicly stated that "[w]e've always counseled in the Church for our Mexican members to marry Mexicans, our Japanese members to marry Japanese, our Caucasians to marry Caucasians, our Polynesian members to marry Polynesians. ... The counsel has been wise." Nearly every decade for over a century—beginning with the church's formation in the 1830s until the 1970s—has seen some denunciations of miscegenation, with most of them focusing on black–white marriages. Church president Brigham Young even taught on multiple occasions that black–white marriage merited death for the couple and their children. Until at least the 1960s, the church penalized white members who married black individuals by prohibiting both spouses from entering temples. Even after the temple and priesthood ban was lifted for black members in 1978 the church still officially discouraged any marriage across ethnic lines. Until 2013 at least one official church manual in use had continued discouraging interracial marriages. Past teachings of church leaders on race and interracial marriage have stemmed from biological and social ideas of the time and have garnered criticism and controversy. Early church leaders made an exception to the interracial marriage teachings by allowing white LDS men to marry Native American women, because Native Americans were viewed as being descended from the Israelites; however, it did not sanction white LDS women marrying Native American men. In 2013, the LDS Church disavowed previous teachings which stated that interracial marriage is a sin. (en)
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- The 1831 transcript of a revelation by Joseph Smith approving marriages between church members and Native Americans, stating "For it is my will, that in time, ye should take unto you wives of the Lamanites and Nephites, that their posterity may become white, delightsome and Just, for even now their females are more virtuous than the gentiles." (en)
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- In the past, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) have consistently opposed marriages between members of different ethnicities, though interracial marriage is no longer considered a sin. In 1977, apostle Boyd K. Packer publicly stated that "[w]e've always counseled in the Church for our Mexican members to marry Mexicans, our Japanese members to marry Japanese, our Caucasians to marry Caucasians, our Polynesian members to marry Polynesians. ... The counsel has been wise." Nearly every decade for over a century—beginning with the church's formation in the 1830s until the 1970s—has seen some denunciations of miscegenation, with most of them focusing on black–white marriages. Church president Brigham Young even taught on multiple occasions that black–white ma (en)
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- Interracial marriage and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (en)
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