Was Interfaith Marriage Uncommon In The 1920s?

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5. I don't believe interfaith marriage was as uncommon as some think, at least in a multicultural

society as the US.
Although the ideal might have been to marry within one's faith, timing and locale had a lot to do with whom one married.
If in a community of many or mostly same faith, it would have been easier to find a mate of the same religion.
Often times this was not so.

Of course, marrying outside of one's faith may have been frowned on, both by family and by clergy, but that didn't always prevent nature from taking its course. Marriage was more a necessity in earlier times, when gender roles were more defined re working, housekeeping, cooking, etc.

Within my family, my Methodist grandfather married my Catholic grandmother, albeit in the priest's parlor, rather than in the sanctuary. I presume he also had to promise to raise his children Catholic, as was the rule in that time.
On the other hand, an earlier ancestor left the Catholic church and raised her children as Methodists, though her spouse remained Catholic until death. There are several other examples of interfaith marriages just within my relationship.

Bottom line, people are human with human wants and needs regardless of the rules and the era.