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American Church Votes To Ban Inter-Racial Marriages
TOMAHAWK, Ky (Reuters) – A vote to bar interracial couples from a small church in eastern Kentucky has triggered hand-wringing and embarrassment.
Nine members of Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church backed their former pastor, with six opposed, in Sunday’s vote to bar interracial couples from church membership and worship activities. Funerals were excluded.
The vote was taken after most of the 40 people who attended Sunday services had left the church in Pike County, near the border with West Virginia. Many members left to avoid the vote.
Most members of the church “didn’t want anything to do with this,” said longtime church official Dean Harville, whose daughter and her black fiance had drawn pastor Melvin Thompson’s ire.
At services earlier this year, Stella Harville, 24, who is working on her master’s degree in optical engineering, sang “I Surrender All” with her fiance, Ticha Chikuni, 29, a Zimbabwe native, according to her father. Chikuni, an employee at Georgetown College in Kentucky, played the piano.
“There didn’t appear to be any problem,” Dean Harville said on Wednesday. “None whatsoever.”
But Harville said Thompson told him the couple would not be allowed to sing at the church again. Thompson resigned in August but would not drop the issue.
Thompson told a local radio outlet, “I do not believe in interracial marriages, and I do not believe this (ban) will give our church a black eye at all.”
He could not be reached for comment.
The move has drawn scrutiny from the hierarchy of the Freewill Baptist Church, Harville said.
“This kind of thing brands all of us so easily,” said Randy Johnson, president of the Pike County Ministerial Association. “That’s not who we are. From all the churches I’ve talked to so far, it’s really not anger so much as it is shock.”
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Uko
December 2, 2011 at 2:01 am
Foolish is a god you believe in if he condons such ignorant behavior.
Antireligous4worldpeace
December 2, 2011 at 5:36 am
STUP!D CHURCH, to hell with its ‘White GOD’ and its racist members.
Kaluluta
December 2, 2011 at 6:08 am
Werent all human’s created in God’s image and r thus equal.thats ridiculous,tufyakwa!
Yes
December 2, 2011 at 6:44 am
Foolish! Trees are different and look very different but they grow together. Even in animals cross breeding is allowed y not in human beings? Lets just forget about these fools coz they are just worstin our time.
Piki
December 2, 2011 at 7:29 am
blacks have bigger and stronger pipes and do it nicely than our pig coloured collegues hence they are preferred by there ladies. the ban wil nt help them stop there ladies to strive for a black one.
Miss G
December 2, 2011 at 7:42 am
Once u go blak u neva go bak. Its jst sexy being blak, am soo proud!!
silvester stalone
December 2, 2011 at 7:55 am
U think blacks are animals,ba thompson chikala chenu ibolo maybe u wantd to strip that ***** bwalibinda sana.just becoz a black man wit big bals stripd yo wife last week imwe kanono ka winky kenu ba pastor.AMABOLO UKUFOTA
ZEKA
December 2, 2011 at 8:00 am
****** AND MALABISHI PASTOR.
kabezo
December 2, 2011 at 8:36 am
Atase!! Hypocrisy! Ifyabupuba! Bakolwe! Who do you think you are?
pumz
December 2, 2011 at 8:41 am
They only want to marry our black cute ladies in africa, but wrong for us(black hundsome) to marry their white babes!!! Shame Thompson
ubuloshi
December 2, 2011 at 9:57 am
bullshit racists! come here and we will sort your stinky white pig ass off! crazy-ass-baby-toe-nail suckin muthafakaz!
candid
December 2, 2011 at 10:46 am
foolish pastor leading foolish congrigate moses a mighty prophet of God. The only one of all men on who saw God’s back and no has or will ever may be in dreams or vission, but moses had an enter racial marrage. Meaning God approoves. Then that pastor doesn’t who the hell does he think he is to interject God, i mean no doudt he is SATANIC
PIKE
December 2, 2011 at 11:44 am
IAM A BAPTIST MEMBER IN AFRICA LUSAKA ZAMBIA BUT I CANNOT SUPPORT THAT BUSHEET. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE WHITE PIGS?
pastorcumpreacher
December 2, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Some of these churches i really fail to understandard their goal. Even here in Zambia some churches need to be monitored. There a lot of things happening, no wonder why so called clergymen and women have made headlines of late in our public media having been involved in cases such us rape,fake currency, drug trafficking etc. What should one expect from such church? Jesus come back, we have too many imposters we cant go on any longer.
Fancyface
December 2, 2011 at 12:35 pm
WTF….Shame on his white ass…how dare he, just who does he think he is.. God? Werent we all created by one God…unless if he proves to us that there is a black and white God. Lord have mercy on his soul. Sick of all the white asses who think they run the world…jeez this aint the 10th century.
SEXY
December 2, 2011 at 1:13 pm
SILLY, LET THE LOVER BIRDS BE, BLOODY RACISTS
ba zambia
December 2, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Usless church. Ba satana imwe
ken
December 2, 2011 at 1:58 pm
It is a church of Satanists not true God worshipers
DPG
December 2, 2011 at 2:06 pm
I skim this is the sickest shit i have read since i saw that post on ,the one about coloreds”golfer and pround”
**** the you ”pastor”fyi..f**k you”
sm
December 2, 2011 at 4:37 pm
What about a coloured man. Which race shd he marry?
gangsta
December 2, 2011 at 4:43 pm
i can bet u that pastor look white & ugly like a pig…but yet they can allow 2 men r 2 women to get married in the church,they shall burn in hell,black is beauty & god is a black man & jesus was a rasta man (dreadlooks)….
Wanu Ngwee
December 2, 2011 at 5:47 pm
AND THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CHAMPIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND JUSTICE? WHAT SICKNESS!
Observing from London
December 2, 2011 at 6:22 pm
that man is not a pastor…..phuckerrrrrrr!
Bad meets evil
December 2, 2011 at 6:38 pm
****** motherf***ers white folks wat kind of this f***kn church? Frankly us blacks dont giv a f**k bout u anyway f**k all yall who worship in this american f**kn church
ichioni mwibala
December 2, 2011 at 8:38 pm
MALABBISH!!!!!!!!!!
mature
December 2, 2011 at 10:22 pm
i can only pray for them.
Yolanda
December 3, 2011 at 12:14 am
Too racist this story sounds fake ba tumfwenko
Uko
December 3, 2011 at 12:26 am
@SM I bet you are in Zambia. Colored nipa Zed. Here you are black.
Uko
December 3, 2011 at 12:34 am
Who gives a f**k whether Jesus was black or white? The Bible is their history. We have our own history too. God of christians does not hide his favoritism for his chosen people. Why should we be forcing ourselves into other people’s beliefs?
Swine Flue
December 3, 2011 at 2:10 am
You “Church Gowaz” I always find it hard to understand what kind of God you worship. The God I know is no a racist Numbers 12:1-14 He made Mirriam – Moses’ sister a lepper for speaking ill of Moses’ wife. Remember Moses was an Israelite and his wife was an Afircan. God did not approve that kind of nonsense. The Galatians exhibited same such unpalatable behaviour. Paul the Apostle reminded them that: “Because all of you are one in the Messiah Jesus, a person is no longer a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a male or a female.” Galatians 3:28. So stop cunfusing people. You are lucky God no longer punishes instantly
but remember younwill soon be dealt with, want or not.
Uko
December 3, 2011 at 7:23 am
@Swine Flue you some trueth in your writing but you are missing a lot of facts. The Bible was specifically written for Jews and God of Christians would do anything, to protect his people. The God of Christian would actually kill to protect his people. If you existed in those times trust me, God would have sent his people to kill you for no other reason than not being Jewish.
Let me know if you would like me to continue.
Swine Flue
December 4, 2011 at 2:50 am
Uko, please go on but I wish we could find a better pavilion to exhuast this urgument.
smiris
December 14, 2011 at 3:05 pm
is this is whats called christianity
wow sorry i am not a christian