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Kentucky church bans interracial couples

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A small church in Pike County, Kentucky has voted to ban interracial couples from most church activities “to promote greater unity among the church body.”

Racism still lives, and the Bible does have something to say about that too:

Corinthians 6:3 said:
We put no stumbling block in anyone's path, so that our ministry will not be discredited.

This ministry, of course, is discredited. You can tell, biblically speaking, if something is good by the fruit it bears, and this fruit is rotten to the core. The members of this church, who have placed a stumbling block to salvation in the way of this couple, will bear the shame for what they have done, come judgment day.

Article is here.
 
Racism still lives, and the Bible does have something to say about that too:



This ministry, of course, is discredited. You can tell, biblically speaking, if something is good by the fruit it bears, and this fruit is rotten to the core. The members of this church, who have placed a stumbling block to salvation in the way of this couple, will bear the shame for what they have done, come judgment day.

Article is here.

un****ingbelievable. but then, it's kentucky.
 
I mean the vote was 9-6, so it seems like even the Church isn't unified on that, so I don't understand how this decision helped unify the church body.
 
Cases like this will not get sufficient attention from the very people who think racism is overwith, and we should not be continuing to form policy that stops it from happening.

Without those protections, places like KY will go right back to the way things were during segregation. :shrug:
 
Cases like this will not get sufficient attention from the very people who think racism is overwith, and we should not be continuing to form policy that stops it from happening.

Without those protections, places like KY will go right back to the way things were during segregation. :shrug:

well, we can't interfere with a church's tenets. we can only condemn them.
 
Cases like this will not get sufficient attention from the very people who think racism is overwith, and we should not be continuing to form policy that stops it from happening.

Without those protections, places like KY will go right back to the way things were during segregation. :shrug:

Yeah, but then they'll just start waving that damn pesky ol' 1st Amendment, as if it's the law of the land, or something.

Your first step would be to get rid of that.

Before we go totally ape over this, we have to ask how many interracial couples were even going to this church, to begin with. No doubt they wouldn't have been welcomed with open arms, even before they pulled this crap.
 
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Yeah, but then they'll just start waving that damn pesky ol' 1st Amendment, as if it's the law of the land, or something.

Your first step would be to get rid of that.

Before we go totally ape over this, we have to ask how many interracial couples were even going to this church, to begin with. No doubt they wouldn't have been welcomed with open arms, even before they pulled this crap.

Pulled what crap? Desiring to worship God? Who put the stumbling block in their way?
 
Pulled what crap? Desiring to worship God? Who put the stumbling block in their way?

The crap of banning interracial couples. Try and keep up with your own thread, please.
 
Yeah, but then they'll just start waving that damn pesky ol' 1st Amendment, as if it's the law of the land, or something.

Your first step would be to get rid of that.

Before we go totally ape over this, we have to ask how many interracial couples were even going to this church, to begin with. No doubt they wouldn't have been welcomed with open arms, even before they pulled this crap.

Is there proof in the Bible that interracial couples should not be allowed to worship Christ in a Church of parishoners? If not, then it has nothing to do with the First Amendment, and the only thing the Church has to stand on is the private property aspect of this; and even then, I would sue if I were that couple.
 
Racism still lives, and the Bible does have something to say about that too:



This ministry, of course, is discredited. You can tell, biblically speaking, if something is good by the fruit it bears, and this fruit is rotten to the core. The members of this church, who have placed a stumbling block to salvation in the way of this couple, will bear the shame for what they have done, come judgment day.

Article is here.

Meh, they should be free to do so. It's idiotic and will cause people to go to a different church; so it only really hurts them.
 
Is there proof in the Bible that interracial couples should not be allowed to worship Christ in a Church of parishoners? If not, then it has nothing to do with the First Amendment, and the only thing the Church has to stand on is the private property aspect of this; and even then, I would sue if I were that couple.

It doesn't matter. If this church believes it's wrong, then they're protected by the 1st Amendment.

Surely, you're not suggesting the government start interpreting the Bible.

The 1st Amendment is going to bite you in the butt, either way.
 
I'm curious if they would accept an all black couple as a member of their church, or if there are currently any non-white couples as members.

Mixed marriages of any kind are fraught with difficulty. My Baptist wife has lost a lot of childhood friends because she married me, a Catholic, in a Catholic church.

The way this church has gone about making their point is profoundly ham-handed, but I do think that couples with greatly divergent backgrounds ought to pause and carefully consider what their relationship will really entail down the line. It's too easy to say that love will conquer all...sometimes it doesn't. I wish the best for their marriage.
 
Sad that prejudice reared its head in Pike County, Kentucky, but fortunately the couple live in a nation where they are free to attend the church of their choice. Frankly, being told by a church that "we don't want you" is much the same as being told exactly that by a former lover; you're better off without them. I hope this couple finds a loving, welcoming church to call home. I hope that people of conscience in that church take it upon themselves to apologize to the couple individually and leave the church themselves. I could not continue to attend worship services where racial prejudice abounded, irrespective of who it was directed at. Racism makes us all poorer.
 
I'm curious if they would accept an all black couple as a member of their church, or if there are currently any non-white couples as members.

Mixed marriages of any kind are fraught with difficulty. My Baptist wife has lost a lot of childhood friends because she married me, a Catholic, in a Catholic church.

The way this church has gone about making their point is profoundly ham-handed, but I do think that couples with greatly divergent backgrounds ought to pause and carefully consider what their relationship will really entail down the line. It's too easy to say that love will conquer all...sometimes it doesn't. I wish the best for their marriage.

Went down that same road with my first wife.
 
I'm kinda surprised stuff like that is still an issue. Baptist and Catholic...still Christian yes? I mean, it's not like she married an atheist or something equally blasphemous.
 
I'm kinda surprised stuff like that is still an issue. Baptist and Catholic...still Christian yes? I mean, it's not like she married an atheist or something equally blasphemous.
Not all Christians consider Catholics to be Christian. Shoot, some Catholics don't consider Catholics to be Christians.
 
Cases like this will not get sufficient attention from the very people who think racism is overwith, and we should not be continuing to form policy that stops it from happening.

Without those protections, places like KY will go right back to the way things were during segregation. :shrug:

I disagree. My OP has more to do with religion and how some people pervert the word of God, rather than practice God's word. Politically, unless people are bombing black churches again, the government has no business telling them what to do. They have all the right in the world to be assholes, unless they infringe on the rights of someone else. The final arbiter in this case is going to be God, who will most likely kick their asses for their bigotry.
 
Not all Christians consider Catholics to be Christian.

...and one of my wife's former friends said as much. "They worship Mary and saints, they pray to them, you are only supposed to pray to God."

“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”
― Fulton J. Sheen
 
Well this ''banning'' shows why they only have 43 members!!
 
So if they don't like black people - why do they even allow them in their church? This makes no sense to me - their entire stance, action and belief . . . WTF?

I hope they sue - and win.

Racial discrimination comes in all forms and most CERTAINLY cannot be concealed and given protection by abusing the 1st Amendment.
 
Whoosh! I just time traveled back to 1956. I didn't know that that was possible. The people of that Pike County Church need to be Liberated. Only 15 of the 43 congregationalists voted? The sun's not yellow, it's chicken.
 
Whoosh! I just time traveled back to 1956. I didn't know that that was possible. The people of that Pike County Church need to be Liberated. Only 15 of the 43 congregationalists voted? The sun's not yellow, it's chicken.

Yeah really - I thought time travel wasn't possible, either.
 
Eh, one of those quaint old churches, that's dying out. And apparently supports inbreeding as well...could be creepy.
 
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