Kentucky Church Bans Interracial Couples

A small church in Kentucky is making national news after banning interracial couples from becoming members.

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.

The above-linked article notes that the church belongs to a sect which believe the Bible to be "inerrant."