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:''if you're black, white, yellow, red, American, Canadian, Russian, Spanish, Mexico, wherever you're from, we're all one in Christ Jesus, every one of us. God don't love one any more than He does the other one. He doesn't love me any more than He loves you. He doesn't love you any more than He loves me. So there we are; we're all one together in Christ Jesus.<ref>THE.CHILDREN.OF.ISRAEL_ PHOENIX.AZ 47-1123</ref> | :''if you're black, white, yellow, red, American, Canadian, Russian, Spanish, Mexico, wherever you're from, we're all one in Christ Jesus, every one of us. God don't love one any more than He does the other one. He doesn't love me any more than He loves you. He doesn't love you any more than He loves me. So there we are; we're all one together in Christ Jesus.<ref>THE.CHILDREN.OF.ISRAEL_ PHOENIX.AZ 47-1123</ref> | ||
But in later years, he would state that he was a segregationist, was strongly opposed to biracial marriages, and thought that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a communist. | But in later years, he would state that he was a segregationist, was an anti-miscegenist (strongly opposed to biracial marriages), and thought that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a communist. | ||
In the latter part of his life, William Branham's stance on many controversial doctrinal issues became more vitriolic. This also appears to be true of his positions on | In the latter part of his life, William Branham's stance on many controversial doctrinal issues became more vitriolic. This also appears to be true of his positions on miscegeny. We were unable to find any opposition to mixed race marriages in any of William Branham's sermons prior to 1960. His most objectionable comments all appear to have been in the last several years of his life. | ||
William Branham's first pastor, [[Roy Davis#Roy Davis and the KKK|Roy Davis, had significant ties with the KKK]] and William Branham also indicated that when he was a boy, the KKK paid his hospital bill (see quotes below). | William Branham's first pastor, [[Roy Davis#Roy Davis and the KKK|Roy Davis, had significant ties with the KKK]] and William Branham also indicated that when he was a boy, the KKK paid his hospital bill (see quotes below). | ||