Morton H. Smith

Morton Howison Smith (December 11, 1923 – November 12, 2017)[1] was an American Presbyterian minister.

[3] He taught at Belhaven College and Reformed Theological Seminary before becoming Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America.

Smith wrote in favor of the equal treatment of all races, and was neutral on the matter of racial integration or segregation, while he opposed large-scale interracial marriage:[T]he present writer ... is not able to find any clear teaching of the Scripture that would condemn individual intermarriage as such, except between the Christian and the nonChristian.

... God has established and thus revealed his will for the human race now to be that of ethnic pluriformity, and thus any scheme of mass integration leading to mass mixing of the races is decidedly unscriptural.

... [T]he real task of the Christian in the South is to strive for just and equal treatment of all.