Kentucky church votes to ban interracial couples

[unapatriciated]

A small Appalachian church in Kentucky is being called racist for passing a vote that banned interracial couples from the church.

The Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church voted 9 to 6 on Sunday to ban interracial couples from church services or functions, with the exception of funerals.

Stella Harville, 24, and her fiance Ticha Chikuni, 28, are the couple that prompted the church's actions. Harville is white and Chikuni is black. The couple met at Georgetown College in Kentucky where both went to school and are scheduled to marry in July 2012.

Harville is in graduate school in Indiana and Chikuni is working at Georgetown College, but when the couple visits Harville's parents in Pike County, Ky., they usually go to church with her parents

http://abcnews.go.com/US/kentucky-church-bans-interracial-couples/story?id=15065204#.TtfolRyKQcM

We are going backwards.

[Chipper Chat]

1. Fuck that church!

nt

[Divine Discontent]

2. the racism, sexism, intolerance of ones beliefs, and homophobia have never went away

it's just that civil rights laws have slowly been getting stronger in protecting us, however, you can't force churches to do anything, so let them show their massive racist views, and let it be clear that is not a house of God! They are indecent and cruel, and I'm sure if they are anti-interracial marriage, their intolerance knows no boundary!



http://www.zazzle.com/gop_2012_keeping_millions_out_of_work_to_put_one_bumper_sticker-128944374900409113?rf=238107662556833486

[unapatriciated]

3. It is a very small church, a little over 40 members.

Only fifteen of them voted on this. The other half of their membership turned a blind eye. I live in the south and know too well that racism. sexism and homophobia still exists. It usually is not so blatant.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. I have to admit I'm not a fan of inter-racial marriages

Those Martian-Human marriages never end well for the Martian.

[Obamanaut]

5. DIscussed also at these earlier threads ->

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=2405280

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=2407159

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=2401709

[unapatriciated]

6. whatever I looked and didn't see any threads on this.

The story I linked to was only a few minuets old at the time that I posted it.
So just ignore my post instead of being snarky.

edited to add that I was not on the net yesterday when those threads were posted and they would not have shown up on the most recent post today.
I see multiple post all the time and I don't feel the need to correct them because they may not have seen post made the day before.

[Obamanaut]

7. As a last resort, some folks have used the 'search' feature, found a thread, and

simply added a response. That works. And, it pushes the earlier thread back to the top of the GD page.