In regard to your question concerning the nature and
character of Baha’i marriage. As you have rightly stated, such a marriage is
conditioned upon the full approval of all four parents. Also your statement to
the effect that the principle of the oneness of mankind prevents any true
Baha’i from regarding race itself as a bar to union is in complete accord with
the Teachings of the Faith on this point. For both Baha’u’llah and ‘Abdu’l-Baha
never disapproved of the idea of inter-racial marriage, nor discouraged it. The
Baha’i Teachings, indeed, by their very nature transcend all limitations
imposed by race, and as such can and should never be identified with any
particular school of racial philosophy.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 27 January 1935
written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the NSA of the United States and Canada;
Baha’i News, no. 90, March 1935)
