 Throughout history, there has not been a church policy on interracial marriages, which had been permitted since before the 1978 reversal.In 1978, church spokesman Don LeFevre said that "there is no ban on interracial marriage.If a black partner contemplating marriage is worthy of going to the Temple, nobody's going to stop him ... if he's ready to go to the Temple, obviously he may go with the blessings of the church."