Pike County, Kentucky Church Bans Interracial Couples From Membership

The Gulnare Freewill Baptist church voted not to allow interracial couples to place membership or be used in worship services or church functions.

http://www.wkyt.com/wymtnews/headlines/Pike_County_church_bans_interracial_couples_from_membership_134713418.html

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This has been the topic of the local news here for the past two days.

Churches like that are not really 'churches' in my opinion.

blackness?

These churches keep pushing me further and further away from religion every day. Soon (last year) I'll be wearing a Proud to be Atheist tshirt.

Why wouldn't they?

There is not a position on anything that can't be backed up by a Bible verse.

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One of the fault lines in protestant belief is that between "free will" and "predestination".

In a nutshell, they will say that you must choose to have faith in Jesus for salvation.

The contrary position is that you actually do not have choice, because if it is up to you to choose, then salvation is entirely dependent on you, instead of Jesus, and you are fooling yourself into believing that you have saved yourself by making that choice.

It's an entirely silly debate, but "Baptists who don't like Calvinists" tend to put "freewill" in their name. The other ones will put "grace" in their name, to signify that salvation is entirely bestowed upon you.

So, your typical hick town will have "First Baptist Church" because it was the first one in town. After a while, they get into an argument and up pops "Grace Baptist Church" and "Freewill Baptist Church".

They multiply like some ghastly species that eats its young.

Idiots.

The name of the church is Free Will. How ironic.

It's people like this that made me turn away from Christianity and ultimately all religion.

I find myself actually repelled by most people when they say they are a Christian.

You see, it's ALL about those precious salt of the Earth working class white folks in Appalachia.

They must be pandered to, kowtowed to and appeased for they are America.

Yes, this is :sarcasm:

And my only gripe with Obama is that I want him to move farther to the left. Like, extremely.

But you're right...

I find very few here I can relate to politically.

I see the same thing in North Texas

Go figure.

A caller on the local news said it was a church on its last leg...

And this will probably do it in as members are threatening to quit if the decision is not reversed.

Most of them do. Some of them actually mean it.

talk about how "uppity" Michelle Obama is. :eyes:

I guess not only can you not be gay and marry but you have to be the "right" kind of male and female to marry. Such asses.

certainly know how to get a lot of (bad) publicity for an incredibly stupid policy.

Jeez!

It's got to be in the Bible somewhere.
GAC

:puke:

I'd say to that church...