FIRST OFF I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THIS WHOLE CHRUCH IS RACIST!
An all-white church in America's rural South has voted to ban interracial couples from joining.
Members
of the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church in Kentucky voted for the
resolution after their Sunday service, which says the church 'does not
condone interracial marriage'.
Were Does it say ANYTHING ABOUT INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE IN THE BIBLE?
The
church member who crafted the resolution, Melvin Thompson, claims he is
not racist and called the matter an 'internal affair'.
WHAT THE HELL IS HE THEN?
'I am not racist. I will tell you
that. I am not prejudiced against any race of people, have never in my
lifetime spoke evil' about a race,
YOU DON"T NEED TOO
said Thompson, the church's former
pastor who stepped down earlier this year.
'That's what this is being portrayed as, but it is not.'
Church
secretary Dean Harville disagrees, saying the resolution came after his
daughter visited the church this summer with her boyfriend from Africa.
WTF AFRICA?
This STORY JUST KEEP GETTING WORSE
Stella
Harville and Ticha Chikuni —
now her fiance — visited the church in
June and Chikuni sang a song for the congregation. The two had visited
the church before.
Mr
Harville said he was counting the church offering after a service in
early August when he was approached by Thompson, who told him Harville's
daughter and her boyfriend were no longer allowed to sing at the
church.
'If he's not racist, what is this?' Mr Harville said.
AMEN
The vote by members last Sunday was
9-6, Mr Harville said. It was taken after the service, which about 35 to
40 people attended. Mr Harville said many people left or declined to
vote.
WOW
The resolution says
anyone is welcome to attend services, but interracial couples could not
become members or be 'used in worship services or other church
functions'.
Stella Harville, a 24-year-old graduate student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana, called the vote 'hurtful'.
'I
think part of me is still in shock and trying to process what's been
going on the past few days,' she said. 'I really hope they overturn
this.'
Last night the
church's pastor, Stacy Stepp, said that he was against the resolution.
Mr Stepp said the denomination's regional conference will begin working
on resolving the issue this weekend.
The
National Association of Free Will Baptists in Tennessee has no official
position on interracial marriage for its 2,400 churches worldwide,
executive secretary Keith Burden said.
The denomination believes the Bible is inerrant and local churches have autonomy over decision-making.
'It's been a non-issue with us,' Mr Burden said, adding that many interracial couples attend Free Will Baptist churches.
He
said the Pike County church acted on its own. Mr Burden said the
association can move to strip the local church of its affiliation with
the national denomination if it's not resolved.
'Hopefully it is corrected quickly,' Mr Burden said.
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