In regard to your question concerning the nature and
character of Bahá’í 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
Bahá’í from regarding race itself as a bar to union is in complete accord with
the Teachings of the Faith on this point. For both Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá never disapproved of the idea of
interracial marriage, nor discouraged it. The Bahá’í Teachings, indeed, by their very nature transcend all
limitations imposed by race, and as such cannot 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 a National Spiritual
Assembly; compilation: ‘Family Life’, prepared by the Research Department of
the Universal House of Justice, March 2008)
