These are both gross stereotypical generalizations based more on the writer’s own prejudices than any facts we know about this case.
Here’s the rule: Most racists vote Republican.
What are you going on about? What does this have to do with the topic?
And why do you assume the young woman is stupid? Do you really mean to imply that the church voted so because they believe she is being victimized by this man?
Or do you just assume darkies can’t be trusted?
Dr J, you win - I’ve been living in a cave.
I’d like some magic beans, please. Let me know where and when to pick them up, and I’ll find a way to buy a POS beater to trade for them.
Do the first ammenment protections of religion require the religion in question make sense?
Full disclosure, two of my brothers are/were free will baptist ministers.
If it did, no religions would be protected.
I’m sorry. What I said was rather confusing. I meant that where I grew up, the county voted for Obama. Like I said, I didn’t know the politics of Pike county. I am not really surprised McCain won, I just wasn’t taking it as a given without the actual numbers.
No, you were clear. My reading comprehension was lacking.
Now, that was funny. Well done.
It’s hard to believe that this is still going on, but I drove through the backwoods of Appalachia once and —wow—it’s like the land progress forgot.
Are there bits of Appalachia that aren’t backwoods? 
That part of the country - I’m from Southern WV just across the border, originally - is heavily Democratic, when it comes to state and local politics. It’s a little murkier with Federal politics - Kentucky and WV are both ‘red states’ for Presidential elections at this point, because their democrats are basically Southern-Fried Dixiecrats.
But down there in the coalfields, where everyone and their brother is a union coal-miner, there’s a little heart of blue bucking the state trend.
My county is 80% registered Democrats but McCain beat Obama here 65%-33%. It’s usually not quite that lopsided, but it’s not far off. (And yes, a lot of that was just straight-up racism. I’m surprised at how many people just come out and admit it.)
I don’t know how it is elsewhere, but here it’s more like everybody’s daddy and uncle used to be a union coal miner. The coal unions are all but gone from here. There is still plenty of pro-union sentiment; our hospital is completely unionized, with one union for nurses and one for everybody else, and they’ve both had strikes in the past five years with big community support. Unfortunately a lot of the miners’ energy that used to go toward the union is now channeled into industry-backed grassroots groups like Friends of Coal.
Church reverses ban:
Well, there’s Charleston, and … okay, Charleston.
Translation: We didn’t realize that our actions would make everybody realize what racist shitstains we are, but once the media firestorm started, we had to find a way out of it.
Hmmm. I wonder what laws? No laws I know of prevent churches from discriminating in their membership process. Now if they were a restaurant…
OMG!! Their bible is To Serve Man! (It’s harder to tell when the dark ones are fully cooked.)
I don’t think it matters. They win either way. What interracial couple (other than perhaps the one that started all of this) is now going to say, “Oh, they changed their minds. Well, that’s OK then – let’s head over there”?
They can now say officially that they have no racist policies while having completely succeeded in keeping interracial couples (and, likely, minorities in general) away.
You underestimate the pathological desire to be accepted by cretinous assholes that growing up in a religious culture creates. All sorts of people whom Christians wish to exclude, murder, or something in between want desperately to join up with those very same Christians because they can’t let go of religion–just look at all the gay churches that exist in every city.
There will be lots and lots of interracial couples and other black people in this congregation, just like there are, astoundingly, lots of black Mormons today even though the Mormon church didn’t admit blacks were full human beings until 1978.
So nobody complains here that what the OP is pitting is obvious while if I do it it gets attacked for picking “easy targets” or whatnot. :rolleyes: