Andrew, well Ive lead the horse to water but I cant make you drink. One last time: While those Christians may have believed that inter-racial marriage was wrong, they still thought it was actual marriage. One last time, the issue here is that Christians believe that a union between a man and a man is not marriage. Those people you are talking about DID think that an interracial union could still actually be a marriage, but they also thought that such mixing was wrong.