In my limited experience, an “interfaith” marriage is a sure-fire path to “no faith” children.

Although, again in my limited experience, generally those who enter into an interfaith marriage are not particularly strong in their respective faiths in the first place.

I’m sure there are exceptions.

I was struck by the comment which I understood to mean that the Anglican church is willing to marry a couple even if only one of the partners is a Christian.  Is this in fact the case?  If so, this is not good at all.  I know that this would never happen at my parish.

It seems that neither person’s ‘faith’ is strong enough to keep them from fornication. Why do they bother with religion?

One’s religious faith or lack of religious faith and/or one’s ethnicity provide ‘some sort of’ of ‘comfort zone’ and, hopefully, a ‘moral compass’ with which one lives out one’s life.

My religious faith is Christianity as organized, taught and expressed by the Church Catholic, in my case, Anglicanism.  This is my heritage from my family and ancestors, directly and indirectly.

Ethnicity in those parts of the world where there are established ‘protocols’ and where there is an acceptance of a historical ‘status quo’ places restrictive boundaries upon inter-community marital relationships.  In the industrialized/developed countries, these boundaries are often fluid and/or non-existant.

In fact, in the industrialized/developed countries, religion and ethnic differences are open to tacit and open derision, and therefore are treated with a contempt, that in itself, will ensure a cultural or religious reaction.

Throw into this devel’s brew of modern culture the fact that persons of different religious and ethnic background marry and have children
and you have situations in which the children of these relationships either grow up with little or no spiritual/moral instruction/guidance and which produce extreme theological confusion when these children seek to lead a spiritual life.

I think they should flip a coin.