SHE WON'T GO!
Kentucky’s regaining national headlines today with news of a small church’s decision to bar interracial marriages and couples. The vote was 9-6, with several not wishing to take a side.
A small Pike County church has voted not to accept interracial couples as members or let them take part in some worship activities.
The decision has caused sharp reaction and disapproval in the Eastern Kentucky county.
“It’s not the spirit of the community in any way, shape or form,” Randy Johnson, president of the Pike County Ministerial Association, said of the vote.
The story is actually somewhat heartening — even if the dipsticks at Gawker are too dumb to figure it out. Basically, we’re talking about a tiny church making a terrible decision widely reviled by the surrounding community. You might even take away from this story that the good people of Pike County are actually not close minded idiots at all, but the opposite. (Or, to put it another way, I’ve met one or two people who work for Gawker but I’m not claiming they’re all pretentious cokeheads.)
So as a note to national commentators… if you’re looking to make fun of us, we’d encourage you to stick to the Governor’s dinosaur theme park. That’s actually representative of the state’s population.
As for Melvin Thompson, the former pastor who actually pushed this dumb rule on his tiny church, we hope he might look into his heart and ask himself… What Would Jesus Do?
And to answer that WWJD, let’s turn to Mr. Taxpayer Funded Bible Theme Park Guy, Ken Ham:
Thus the only form of interracial marriage the Bible talks and warns about is marriage between a Christian and a non-Christian. Even the Israelites were told not to marry the pagan Canaanites. However, a Canaanite appears in the genealogy of Jesus Christ—Rahab (Matthew 1:5). How could that be?
Obviously from the Jericho account in Joshua 6, Rahab stopped being a Canaanite spiritually and became an Israelite spiritually when she trusted in the true God. When she did this, she was free to marry an Israelite because she was then of the same spiritual race, which is what marriage is truly about.
Certainly a couple from different cultural groups needs godly counsel, as do all couples, to help ensure they understand their roles in marriage and the differences they have that could potentially cause problems. However, if a man and woman trust Christ as their Savior and believe it would please Him for them to marry, nothing in Scripture disallows this, from either a biological or a spiritual perspective.
So… stay away from Jews and Muslims and Hindus. Or at least, don’t marry them. Unless you can convert them first.
Glad we cleared this one up.
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