I gave my daughter Voddie Baucham’s book What He Must Be if he wants to marry my daughter. I asked her the other day how it was and what she was learning. If you don’t know who Voddie Baucham is, I need to tell you, for the purposes of this story, that he is black. You also need to know that I and my family are as white as Scandinavian-Americans with roots in Minnesota and Wisconsin should be; that is, very white.
One section of Baucham’s book deals with inter-“racial” marriage. His view is that it is both wrong and foolish to narrow your matrimonial options based on ethnicity (I concur). As he discussed this issue, he personalized it in the context of his own pigmentally advantaged family. If a godly young man of differing shade wanted to court his daughter, and she was amenable, that would be fine with him.
So, when I asked my daughter what she was learning, she replied,
“I’ve learned that I don’t have to marry a black guy.”
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#1 || 09·09·11··06:41 || Daniel
Well, that's ... a start ... I guess.
#2 || 09·09·11··22:31 || Brother Hank
If I ever have a daughter, I might add a chapter to Voddie's book entitled, "The Texas Triage: Why Being From Texas is a Very Close Third to Doctrine and Character in the Lives of Would-Be Husbands"... :)I'm sure, being a Texan himself, Voddie just took that truth for granted...lol.