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Baptist congregation’s vote to ban interracial couples from membership
has been declared null and void by a church conference. Members of the
Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church in Pike County, Kentucky, had voted to
ban interracial couples after Stella Harville came to services with her
fiancé, Ticha Chikuni, who is from Zimbabwe. Pastor Stacy Stepp – who
said he opposed the policy – asked for help from the Sandy Valley
Conference of Free Will Baptists, comprised of more than a dozen member
churches. The Conference met on Saturday and declared the interracial
ban was invalid.
