{"id":24151,"date":"2011-12-02T12:03:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T19:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/church-bands-interracial-couples.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:39:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:39:40","slug":"church-bands-interracial-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/church-bands-interracial-couples.html","title":{"rendered":"Church bans interracial couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously I disagree with this particular church&#39;s beliefs &#8212; but I support their decision, as a private belief group, to define their own membership rules.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason I point this out is that the question all too often comes up about whether the growth of anti-discrimination laws against gays and the spread of gay marriage laws will lead to government crackdowns and persecution of churches  that disagree with gay marriage.  Not only has such persecution not been demonstrated to date with for churches that condemn homosexuality, but even a socially more extreme case like this (which is not unique) demonstrates it&#39;s a non-issue.  <\/p>\n<p>The local sheriff, or the state police, or the FBI, aren&#39;t going to prosecute or shut down the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church about this, even though interracial marriage is legal in Kentucky and recognized by the Federal government.  Any results will all be <i>social<\/i>, not legal (people pointing and laughing, or condemning, or quitting the congregation, or perhaps their larger baptist organization kicking them out).  Which is as it should be. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/dec\/01\/kentucky-church-bans-interracial-couples'>Kentucky church votes to ban interracial couples<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGulnare Free Will Baptist Church votes on resolution that says the church &#39;does not condone interracial marriage&#39;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously I disagree with this particular church&#39;s beliefs &#8212; but I support their decision, as a private belief group, to define their own membership rules. The only reason I point this out is that the question all too often comes up about whether the growth of anti-discrimination laws against gays and the spread of gay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/church-bands-interracial-couples.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Church bans interracial couples&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,718,27],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-marriage-equality","category-religion","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32976,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/31\/anti-interracial-vs-anti-gay-marriage-quotes.html","url_meta":{"origin":24151,"position":0},"title":"Anti-Interracial vs Anti-Gay Marriage Quotes","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 31-Mar-13 11:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"Can you tell the difference between the arguments made? \u00a0(Hint: \"'Tain't natural!\" and \"Oooh, icky!\" and \"It's the End of the World As We Know It!\" are a common thread.) 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