Editing Christian views on marriage (section)

== Interreligious marriage ==
{{Main|Interfaith marriage in Christianity}}
In Christianity, an interfaith marriage is a marriage between a baptized Christian and a non-baptized person, e.g. a wedding between a Christian man and Jewish woman.<ref name="Schram2013"/>

In the [[Presbyterian Church (USA)]], the local church congregation is tasked with supporting and including an interfaith couple with one being a baptized Presbyterian Christian and the other being a non-Christian, in the life of the Church, "help[ing] parents make and live by commitments about the spiritual nurture of their children", and being inclusive of the children of the interfaith couple.<ref name="PCUSA2010"/> The pastor is to be available to help and counsel the interfaith couple in their life journey.<ref name="PCUSA2010">{{cite book |title=Interfaith Marriage |date=6 October 2010 |publisher=[[Presbyterian Church (USA)]] |page=2}}</ref>

Although the Catholic Church recognizes as [[natural marriage]]s weddings between two non-Christians or those between a Catholic and a non-Christian, these are not considered to be sacramental, and in the latter case, the Catholic must seek permission from the local [[bishop]] for the marriage to occur; this permission is known as "dispensation from [[disparity of cult]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/are-non-catholic-marriages-valid-in-the-eyes-of-the-catholic-church-what-if-a-catholi|title=Are non-Catholic marriages valid in the eyes of the Catholic Church? What if a Catholic marries a non-Catholic?|year=1996|publisher=[[Catholic Answers]]|access-date=16 June 2015|quote=Supernatural marriages exist only between baptized people, so marriages between two Jews or two Muslims are only natural marriages. Assuming no impediments, marriages between Jews or Muslims would be valid natural marriages. Marriages between two Protestants or two Eastern Orthodox also would be valid, presuming no impediments, but these would be supernatural (sacramental) marriages and thus indissoluble.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221104452/http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/are-non-catholic-marriages-valid-in-the-eyes-of-the-catholic-church-what-if-a-catholi|archive-date=21 December 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

In [[Methodism|Methodist Christianity]], the 2014 ''Discipline'' of the [[Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection]] discourages interfaith marriages, stating "Many Christians have married unconverted persons. This has produced bad effects; they have either been hindered for life, or have turned back to perdition."<ref name="AWMC2014"/> Though the [[United Methodist Church]] authorizes its clergy to preside at interfaith marriages, it notes that Corinthians 6 has been interpreted "as at least an ideal if not an absolute ban on such [interfaith] marriages as an issue of scriptural faithfulness, if not as an issue of Christian survival."<ref name="BurtonEdwards2010"/> At the same time, for those already in an interfaith marriage (including cases in which there is a non-Christian couple and one party [[conversion to Christianity|converts to Christianity]] after marriage), the Church notes that [[Saint Paul]] "addresses persons married to unbelievers and encourages them to stay married."<ref>see {{Bibleverse|1 Corinthians|7:12-16|KJV}}</ref><ref name="BurtonEdwards2010">{{cite web |last1=Burton-Edwards |first1=Taylor |title=Interfaith Marriage: Pastoral Discernment and Responsibility |url=https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/blog/interfaith-marriage-pastoral-discernment-and-responsibility |publisher=[[The United Methodist Church]] |access-date=30 November 2020 |language=en |date=2010}}</ref>