Friday, 02 December 2011
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Kentucky Church Bans Interracial Couples
A former pastor at a Kentucky church put forward a proposal that interracial couples be banned from the church "except for funerals." This proposal was passed by the Gulnare Freewill Baptist church community after the daughter of the church secretary and her fiance (who is from Africa) sang in the church choir a few weeks ago. Read about it here.
I am heartened that the president of the local ministerial association has the grace to be ashamed by this move.... but it still saddens me to think that this sort of institutionalized biased is continuing in America.
What are your thoughts, Datingish readers?
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Comments (62)
Disgraceful. The people who go along with this should be ashamed of themselves. For goodness sakes, it's freaking 2011. How is it anyone else's business if people of different races want to be together? When will people learn, love is not bounded by color.
God made interracial people.
It's a church so I'm not surprised.
Oh, this is more than bias.
I think that's no church that I would want to acknowledge as a church at all
That's just wrong. That is not a real church obviously.
Interesting. On one hand, it's totally absurd that people still think like this. On the other, many people who advocate legalisation of same sex marriages also advocate that individual churches should be able to decide on their own whether or not they'll marry two 'mos. Not sure I understand how that is any different from what this church is doing.
It sickens me. But is that even legal to deny them from participating in church activities simply because they have two different skin colors? If they were just denying to marry the couple, I know how that's legal (since marriage is just legal and religion isn't forced to marry anyone) but I didn't know churches could just reject anyone they wanted from worshipping based on skin color or anything like that.
I support their right to do so. Religious institutions are in no way subject to so-called "civil rights" laws. Just like I support the right of a church to refuse to preside over a gay marriage if they don't believe in it. Yes, it's stupid, and further shows why religion is nothing but a mental illness, but it is their right and I support it.
what the fuck. for this sort of bigotry to still exist in america, i smfh.
I would think that it being 2011 we'd have gotten past this, way to prove me wrong KY church.
There's a Baptist church in my town that my friend goes to similar to this. For some reason interracial dating/marriage came up in conversation once. Apparently her church teaches that the Bible verse talking about uneven yolking means that if a white man and a black woman (just a generic example) want to date or marry, it's an act of defiance toward the Bible and God himself.
SERIOUSLY? Ugh. People and churches like this are what make the world negatively judge myself and others for being Christian.
God bless us all. The church is a loving institution.
so much for being a loving christian
Everyone should leave the church and go to a new one. Let them feel the shame and have that church (metaphorically) burn to the ground.
There's this thing about church, it's completely seperate from the state (government). If you don't like or agree with that church, then DO NOT ATTEND or FINANCIALLY SUPPORT that church. Churches cannot exist if you don't attend or support them. Unfortunately, churches don't have to follow the Constitution.
As a private institution they are free to do so but I find it disgusting and disheartening that they would be so hateful.
that is crazy. Churches like this give Christians a bad name.
@LoveeeLikeASunset@xanga - Generalization.
OP: People usually get the view that marrying someone of a different race is wrong from some of the Old Testament laws God made for the JEWS and from the passage that says "do not be unequally yolked." First of all, and once again, the laws in the old testament were directed at the Jews. Not that we shouldn't look at them and apply them somehow into our lives. and the passage about being unequally yolked has nothing to do with race. It is talking about believers and unbelievers. And that is it.
@AnnieLeigh@xanga - The passage about being unequally yolked is talking about believers and unbelievers. Not race. People need to read the verses in CONTEXT. Oy.
And yes. People and churches like this are being false witnesses and setting horrible examples for the rest of us.
The man works at my school and is the nicest person you'd ever meet. The whole just sickens me.
@xhalesx@revelife - Exactly. And the reason God told them not to intermarry in the Old Testament was because people of other groups had other belief systems, and would turn them toward the worship of idols (Solomon's life is a good example of this, along with many others).
As for this church, I agree with the others...this is the kind of madness that gives Christians a bad name.
This saddens me. They clearly do not have an understanding of the Gospel, which says that Christ has redeemed people from every nation, tribe, and tongue. There is no biblical bases for doing this. They are denying membership to interracial couples. This is more than just being "behind the times." They are in sin for doing this.
I don't think it's a sign of having grace to be shamed by this, it's a sign of common sense and decency.
This isn't surprising. This IS pathetic and disappointing, though.