Posted on 11/30/2011 7:58:54 PM PST by TSgt
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A tiny all-white Appalachian church in rural Kentucky has voted to ban interracial couples from joining its flock, pitting members against each other in an argument over race.
Members at the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church voted Sunday on the resolution, which says the church “does not condone interracial marriage.” The church member who crafted the resolution, Melvin Thompson, said he is not racist and called the matter an “internal affair.”
“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,” 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: He says the resolution came after his daughter visited the church this summer with her boyfriend from Africa.
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No, because all of us in the know realize that far more blacks than whites are against inter-racial marriage. This, however, will never be remarked upon by “enlightened” people.
I guess they never touched on triangles huh.
The grape juice gospel is sad, because it misses a very real phenomenon of holy intoxication (that does not mean being soused out of your gourd, nor partaking if it creates a genuine health problem for you). If a symbolic communion is used, it would not make a difference given the small amounts consumed whether it was wine or Welch’s. But the grape juice gospel hardly explains how Welch’s sans alcohol could have the effects of “new wine.” Nobody gets giddy over grape juice. (Now I’ve heard artificial grape flavoring claimed to make kids hyperactive, but never the real mccoy.)
That's not to say I've heard plenty of stuff both ways over the years being in highly segregated SE Michigan which can give anyplace a run for its money (both ways), but it wasn't considered acceptable behavior inside a church.
Good one! :-)
Another memory of my church upbringing (dating back to the late 1940's and early 1950's) was that smoking was just fine. After services, the preacher and a good part of the men in the congregation would blaze away on portico around the building.
In many ways, my childhood was a better era. Smoking was considered a part of being sociable. Homosexuality was rightfully and unabashedly taught as an abomination. Today's twisted world is upside down thanks to liberalism. Smoking is now treated as an abomination and sodomy is considered the norm. Thank goodness my church has not altered its stance on sodomy by one degree. And thank goodness for Free Republic as an oasis of sanity.
I think it’s good and proper to heed genuine advances in medical scientific knowledge. What was that brand of cigarettes that half of doctors chose in the fifties? Now more people refrain and that’s good. Those few fellows (I don’t know a gal who does it) at the church I go who smoke, do it discreetly on the front sidewalk or at home. We do not bug them personally for it. But we believe in general that if something is known to be harmful to your body, a temple of the Holy Spirit, a Christian should make an effort to refrain from it.
Get used to tribalism. It’s the way of socialist diversity race doctrines which promotes hatred of the other and loyality by race for the cause of race power. Whites will join it and why should they not?
We need to stop it all. But we only get our noses screwed out of joint when we see whitey do it. Our society is very twisted and sick.
Oh, the irony!
Just curious, what denomination were you brought up in?
Its a little weird, I've seen survey on it in the past, and it seems that its black women (by a hugh overwhelming amount) that oppose inter-racial marriages.
I recall one survey putting the percentages in the low 90's of black women who are opposed. I actually asked someone I know about it (she was black) and she had a pretty quit witted answer....."You can probably name alot of black guys with white girls, but how many black girls you know or see with white guys?"...........I'd never actually noticed it until then.
Interesting. I go to a Calvinist, predestinarian PCA(very conservative and Biblically orthodox) church and we have at least one interracial couple in our congregation. I’ve never heard anyone make an issue about it.
The church of Christ (sometimes known colloquially as dunkin' Campbellites).
While not trying to evangelize anyone tonight, I will recount an experience from an extended summer vacation in 2008. I took a lengthy roadtrip during the height of the general election and made a point to stop by our congregations for Sunday and Wednesday services. I am pleased to report that I saw not a single bumper sticker on a car in the church parking lot for Obama. There were quite a few for Palin (and the guy she ran with) and a good number of 'W' stickers from 2004. Also there were plenty for our military. My travels to me took me places from Lubbock, Texas to Franklin, Tennessee and up into Missouri and Illinois.
George Benson, former president of a church of Christ college (Harding University), had this insightful lesson, The War We Are In: Communism vs. Capitalism. It's rather dated (1962) but the message rings true today.
Thanks. I’ll try to watch that video later.
At my church, I saw a car with this bumper sticker on it: “Vote for Obama. Because everyone else deserves what you worked so hard to achieve.” I figured both a liberal and a conservative would approve of that bumper sticker for completely opposite reasons.
A former pastor of mine told me once in the very conservative OPC denomination, at General Assembly the elders would pass a resolution disciplining an elder for using a street car on the sabbath. Then, they’d go outside for a smoke. So I was wondering if you were OPC. I never knew Church of Christ was so laid back about smoking.
I watched a documentary about Westboro, made by perhaps the world’s stupidest documentary film maker. But he was able to show that the leader is a dictatorial jackass, a carbon copy of James Jones. Won’t surprise me if they all end up dead, full of Kool-aid.
Because each congregation is autonomous, the attitudes about smoking will vary from location to location. There's not a top-down hierarchy to set cultural standards. I've even been to a few church of Christ congregations where instrumental music accompanies what it typically acapella singing during service.
I think the fact that smoking was tolerated was a function of the era (post WWII when soldiers smoked a good bit) and due to the geographical location, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia where the millworker culture embraced smoking. Of course, at that time, the steel mills were running full blast so we all smoked whatever was pouring out the smokestacks of J&L, USS, Weirton and so forth. :-)
A brief foray into light-hearted religious humor in this thread and I hope no one takes any offense.
I have a longtime friend who became a Cumberland Presbyterian minister. He said that the symbol of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) was the wine goblet and if the founders of the CPC were on the ball (and were sufficiently whimsical), they would have used a jug with "XXX" for their symbol. :-)
He was kidding, of course, but did note that the Cumberland Presbyterians did have an image of being somewhat more rustic the PCUSA.
*facepalm*
Does XX denote a moonshine which isn’t quite as strong?
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