Brigham Young says that the penalty for inter-racial sexual relations is death.

Date
1865
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Brigham Young
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

Brigham Young, "The Persecutions of the Saints—Their Loyalty to the Constitution—the Mormon Battalion—the Laws of God Relative to the African Race," Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: Daniel H. Wells, 1865), 10:110

Scribe/Publisher
George D. Watt
People
Brigham Young
Audience
Latter-day Saints
PDF
Transcription

Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so. The nations of the earth have transgressed every law that God has given, they have changed the ordinances and broken every covenant made with the fathers, and they are like a hungry man that dreameth that he eateth, and he awaketh and behold he is empty.

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