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In the midst of controversy surrounding a Pike County church and their vote to ban interracial couples from becoming members of their church  [original article], the National Association of Free Will Baptists have released a statement noting the contrary. 

Below is the official statement regarding Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church:

From the National Association of Free Will Baptist For Immediate Release December 1, 2011

Free Will Baptist Executive Office Statement Regarding Interracial Couples Antioch, TN — Recently, the action of a Free Will Baptist church in the state of Kentucky raised questions regarding the position of the National Association of Free Will Baptists on interracial couples. This statement is intended to bring clarity to the subject.

The National Association of Free Will Baptists does not have an official policy regarding interracial couples because it has not been an issue in the denomination. The Free Will Baptist Treatise neither condemns nor disallows marriage between a man and woman of different races.

Free Will Baptists have historically championed the rights and dignity of all people, regardless of race. The denomination’s leadership in the abolition movement is evidence of that fact. Free Will Baptists currently spend millions of dollars each year to take the good news of Jesus Christ to people of every race. Many interracial couples are members of Free Will Baptist churches. They are loved, accepted, and respected by their congregations.

It is unfair and inaccurate to characterize the denomination as racist. It is our understanding that steps are being taken by the church in question to reverse its decision. We encourage the church to follow through with this action. Leaders from the local conference and state association in Kentucky are working with the church to resolve this matter.

Contact: Executive Secretary Keith Burden: keith@nafwb.org Keith Burden, CMP Executive Secretary National Association of Free Will Baptists, Inc. 

​According to Kentucky.com, Stacy Stepp, pastor of the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church, said he will seek a new vote on the issue, perhaps as early as Sunday.

Stepp said he is confident members of the church, which has about 45 members, will overturn the earlier decision.
 
"We're going to get it resolved," Stepp said.
 
What are you thoughts, given the NAFWB's official statement in response to our original article? Sound off in the comments below.
 

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Hillbilly trailer trash > Black Ghetto trash

I am still waiting for the official statement from the NOI, and Louis Farrakhan as to why they don't approve of Interracial relationships.

Wait! Nobody minds it when black people, and their places of worship discriminate.

*rolls eyes*

Hillbilly trailer trash > Black Ghetto trash.

discusting

This church needs to be shut down alot of churches in the state of KY needs to be shut down they dont know the meaning of church they use it for a crutch and alot of so called be leavers will go to hell U all are despicable

FWBC

Run from this Church and from Free Will Baptist International, they say that they follow Christ but they don't. They never said I Repent of my sins. Jesus is the main Authority of his Church, Notice they said they are the Authority? Any Church and Church Organization that's autonomous from all other churches bearing the same name, saying they are independent and each one has it's own Authority is a false Christian Church mark my word friends. They are no different than McDonald's franchise, each pays a percent to use the name. They also teach that Jesus is the Son of God, then in the same line, they say Jesus is God and on another line they say Jesus is sitting on the right hand of God. He can't be all three and then the same one. A play on words that's not biblical. How about just the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and these three are one meaning (in agreement with each other). The Father is not the Son and the Son is not the Father. So stop trying to make scripture fit your traditions. (Matt. 28:19; Rom. 11:13; Acts 9:15; Gal. 1:16;John 15:14; 1 John 1:5,6; Matt. 11:20.) All Nations of people get saved and become Christians. Evangelicals only mean you are a Christian that shares the Good News with people, all Christians then are Evangelicals not just people of one race.

VOTE?

Where in God's word does the body of believers put anything to a vote? God's word should be consulted and studied if the people don't have enough common sense to tell them right from wrong.

If God created all the races,

If God created all the races, would He not want them all to survive?
The white race faces extinction in the next 100-200 years because of rapidly declining white populations and rapidly rising third world populations.
The policy in all white countries is AFRICA FOR AFRICANS, ASIA FOR ASIANS, AND WHITE COUNTRIES FOR EVERYONE. This is all about white genocide because it is about a future with fewer and fewer white people in it.
Jesus said to love your neighbor as yourself. That said, which side of the white genocide issue are you on?

interracial couples

When I was first taught from the Bible, it said that God created everything and then Adam and Eve.
Cain went to live far away (after murdering his brother) and there he took a wife. What wife? Where? Eve's daughter? Another woman created by
God? Regardless,the Bible says God created male and female. Any variation in skin color, eye color, hair, etc. is part of God's design. Where does ANYONE get off saying that there should not be marriage due to race? Go back to Genesis and read it again!!

Free Will Baptist Church

Thompson and his cohorts are racists -- period. To say otherwise is just crazy. They have violated our Constitution and all the laws of the land regarding racial discrimination.

The fifth and the 14th amendments are the two primary amendments to the constitution that deal with the issue of racial discrimination. The 14th amendment builds upon the Fifth Amendment, which has the now famous assertion that the due process of law is necessary for the government to deprive persons of "life, liberty or property." The Fifth Amendment was not originally intended to support anti-racist initiatives within government. The 14th amendment, however, in some sense further elaborated on the Fifth Amendment by making explicit what was only implicit in the fifth. It required the states to provide equal protection under the law to all citizens and overturned the Dred Scott decision, which had made it impossible for African-Americans to be classified as citizens.

For the church to come out with a “oops” response and all of sudden reverse its position is totally bogus. The members that voted for this absurd and blatantly discriminatory policy should be immediately removed from the church and banned forever. The church must try to distance itself from these characters and pray for mercy for from this abused couple and their families who by all indications should bring legal action against those behind this mean and malicious action. This action smacks of nothing but white supremacy.

There is no place in the world for this kind of behavior.

Free Will Baptist Church

*They did not Repent.(Matthew 11:20) Then he started to reproach the cities in which most of his powerful works had taken place, because they did not repent:
The Command from Jesus Christ is to Preach/Teach the Good News to all Nations of people. (Matt. 28:19; Rom. 11:13; Acts 9:15; Gal.

It is GENOCIDE!

Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.

The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.

Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.

What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?

How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?

And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?

But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.

They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.

Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.

What they advocate is genocide.

Racial prejudice

As a person raised with Christian values I am appalled by this churches position. HOWEVER, throughout my life, on two continents over the past 60 years, I have rarely seen a marriage between two different cultures work. This has nothing to do with colour but cultural differences. My experience is based on personal history and those of my background of British upbringing and North American culture. So if this church wants to clarify its position as being against cultural difference unions, then fine, but do not use colour as a basis for their position. That is illegal and immoral.

I'm am a 48 year old son of

I'm am a 48 year old son of an interacial married couple. I can assure you, there are many interacial couples that have lasting and loving relationships. My parents have been married for about 50 years. Open up your mind and eyes, for God's sake. Sheesh!

rarely?

I am responding to the person who says that it is rare for interraccial couples to last. Are you kidding me? I know more than 10 that have lasted over 20 years! That is not the point anyway. We all come from Adam & Eve--'one blood' verse Acts 17:36. This is racism pure and wicked. I could not believe I was reading a disturbed hateful article! That pastor need to take a stronger position as a leader!

Kentucky

Is anyone surprised by this. This is a region of the country that is ripe with the whole Obama is a Kenyan absurdity and they elected a senator who thinks the civil rights law passed by LBJ should be overturned. And nearby Cincinnati is a haven for the KKK.

This is Kentucky. There are plenty of racists in that region. Plenty.

the state of KY is one messed

the state of KY is one messed up state

this is sad but true. racism

this is sad but true. racism is still rampant. and this is 2011! i believe god created EVERYONE and god does not make mistakes. get real people we ALL are god's children!

So informative to hear from

So informative to hear from an expert on ALL people and opinions in Kentucky.

Kentucky

becoming defensive about Jay's comments does not change the fact that his comments are the truth.

Banned members

It broke my heart to read this that those who call them selves Christians followers of Christ would act in such a way. What makes Gods heart ache should make the Christians heart ache, what God sees as just we should see as just, what makes God turn his eyes should make us turn our eyes. We were all created by the same God for the same reason love and worshp him and to love all he has created, how can a "Christian ban something God loves?" It seems to me that a lot of justifacation has been fashioned to hide the real issues surrounding this. We are to be witnesses that lift others up and show them Jesus through our lives instead some of us turn away what God loves and so I wonder if it is God they really love or their own hidden agenda. I will say this I will not stand in judgment only to say that I beleive this is wrong what matters is what God thinks and his word the living word we call the Bible and beleive to be as Timothy says "God breathed" is what will matter most when we all stand before him. I pray that God will show those who are a part of this His true will and that thier eyes will be opened. Its like the song Give Me your eyes by Brandon Heath where he says, "Iv;e been here a million times, a couple of millin eyes, just move and pass me by, I NEVER THOUGHT THAT I WAS WRONG!" I pray you take that second glance and ask the question What will the Lord think of me when I have denied what he loves to be part of the faimily. Lastly if t was me I would find another church because Gods will is not at the fore front and niether is the love that he showed us. God bless from historical USA

Clayton Malachi Lynch

they are not Christians there

they are not Christians there the Antichrist

Hypocrites

http://www.examiner.com/lutheran-in-chicago/kentucky-church-has-just-proven-itself-to-be-bigoted-hypocrites

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