Editorial December 28, 1963 Issue

Facing the Problem of Miscegenation

Carl J. Welz

During a two-year period, while serving in Japan as a Chaplain in the United States Air Force, I interviewed two hundred and fifty couples who were taking the legal steps to marriage. They were all of mixed races. Today in some American cities it is not uncommon to see couples of mixed races walking hand in hand. Many parents are being surprised by the necessity of facing this problem.

Whether one has a deep conviction that companionship of any sort between members of different races is wrong or believes that there should be no regard for race in choosing companions, he will work out his problems more effectively and more harmoniously if he understands that his conviction is based on human considerations.

Human conditions are never divine. In varying degrees they pattern the divine, and in the degree that they do this they express the harmony of divine reality.

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