Commentary for Kiddushin 150:5

אלא ר' אלעזר סבר לה כר' ישמעאל דאמר כותים גירי אריות וסבר לה כר' עקיבא דאמר עובד כוכבים ועבד הבא על בת ישראל הולד ממזר

and divorce; thus excluding a heathen or a slave, who does not come within the ambit of widowhood and divorce.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., only when she cohabits with one whose death leaves her a widow, or who can divorce her, does she remain fit to eat terumah. But not when she cohabits with a heathen or slave, for since these cannot legally marry her, they cannot give her the status of widowhood or divorce. - Where a woman is disqualified from eating terumah, she is certainly ineligible to marry a priest.');">⁵</span> Now should you think that he holds with R'Akiba - if he [the issue] is mamzer, is it necessary [to deduce] that he [the heathen] disqualifies by his intercourse!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely not, since the former involves even a greater degree of unfitness.');">⁶</span>

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