Interracial marriage and the LDS Church

In the past, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), including Brigham Young, have opposed marriages between members of different ethnicities. In 1977, one of the church's apostles, Boyd K. Packer, publicly stated: "We'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...

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