Yes, it is their faith to only marry people that belong to the Amish church.- eletias -It be better to say "yes and no".Most of time they do marry in their faith, only looking for a mate in their own...
The Amish people fled Germany about 300 years ago to escape religious persecution. Martin Boehm is generally credited with leading the emmigration, if I remember my reading correctly, and settled in...
It began with a schism in Switzerland within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists in 1693 led by Jakob Ammann. Those who followed Ammann became known as Amish.