Kentucky church bans interracial couples.

"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.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/30/kentucky-church-bans-interracial-couples/

 

whats funny is they called themselves christians. wow.

 

Hard to believe this is happening in the 21st Century. Seems some churches are going to the throwback religion of banning couples of different races.

 

why is it hard to believe ? its hard to believe that you think it would be hard to believe that racism in church would be gone? LOL

 

What can I say. It's Kentucky man, it's Kentucky. They haven't caught up with the majority of America yet.

 

IMO, that small church is trying to take advantage of the media attention it will generate from an asinine idea to become a large church... I'm willing to bet they don't even have any interracial couples in their congregation to begin with...

 

It said the vote was 9-6 to ban interracial couples. Why does the opinions of 9 racist people deserve news coverage?

 

some parts of KY are even more backwards than you would even imagine. Pike county is in eastern KY, on the VA/West VA border. It's about as red neck as you can get, many are uneducated & extremely poor. Fundamentalist religion is predominant & the folks are generally intolerant of most everything. I'm not, sadly, even a bit surprised.

 

Interesting.

 

Sometimes going down South is like traveling back in time through a worm hole.
We're talking about a CHURCH. A house of worship and spiritual enlightenment. A shame.:butthead:

 

Why is anyone surprised, it's freaking christianity.

 

This is just crazy and sad. I have lots of peeps throughtout KY who are white so I know that cool, open minded people exist there but I also know it's about as redneck as you can get in some parts as well.

 

Does every story in the news thread have to revolve around race?

 

What do you mean "its freaking Christianity?" I think this sort of thing has to do with the up-bringing of the people and nothing to do with the faith..

 

They are places in the South that are racist yes and probably more so than the North and West but none the less they are also places like that elsewhere. Most of the South has changed IMO.
I live in GA. My multicultural (mostly white) church preaches about destroying poverty and racism all the time. They helped me by providing food for my loving day event last year. Recently they asked me and my husband and our children to be in a group church photo BECAUSE we are an interracial family.

 

Kumbaya my lord...kumbaya.

 

Frederick Douglass

(1817-1895)
1.I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.



2.I can see no reason, but the most decietful one, for calling the religion of this land Chritianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, the grossest of all libels. [Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself]



3.I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes-- a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, and a dark shelter under which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection. Where I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to that enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me...I...hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. [Frederick Douglass, "After the Escape"]



4.We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for the glory of God and the good of souls. The slave auctioneer's bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the relgious shouts of his pious master. Revivals of religion and revivals in the slave trade go hand in hand. [Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself]

Fred knew what was up!

 

Those people DO NOT represent the religion of Christianity.

 

Yes they do and they always did. Wake up.

 

@north you are too correct. the bible makes a inferences as christ being within the person. the ten commandments is suppose to be in your heart.

also the christianity means christ like. so if you are professing christianity then you are a rep.

cosign on that all day