December 5, 2011

Church Bans Interracial Couples

The Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church in Kentucky voted 9 to 6 to ban interracial couples from church services in 2011. The story reflected a similar decision that made headlines two years earlier; a Louisiana pastor had refused to officiate a civil marriage of an interracial couple out of fear that the children produced from such a marriage would "suffer."

HOW DOES THIS CONNECT TO STRUCTURAL RACISM?:

For more about inter-racial marriage laws see, "Interracial Marriage Laws History Timeline"