Your Child Married a Non Christian? No Communion for You!

There was a story in this issue of "The Other Sheep" that troubled me. It was not that it was necessarily a bad thing, but I guess the issue rubbed me the wrong way. The story was from a missionary from China, and she was talking about her unusual calling. Her calling was to basically play matchmaker for Christian young people in her community. I know there is a difference in times and values but it bothered me when she wrote, "Whoever marries his child to a heathen will not be permitted to partake in the Lord's Supper". I was extremely offended by that, she was saying it as if that if your child marries a non-Christian, you have committed the impardonable sin. A sin so extreme and vulgar that you are now not allowed to partake in the Lord's Supper? What kind of Christianity is this? If people were not allowed to participate in communion because of sin in their life, not one single person in church would be able to partake in it. God's forgiveness of our sins is what allows us to be able to receive salvation and be able to take communion in remembrance of His sacrifice. I believe that even the vilest sin can be forgiven, but forgiveness does not mean the person forgets it. Paul (formerly Saul) persecuted thousands of Christians before his conversion, Rahab was a prostitute, David was an adulterer, yet they still became or were Christians. So from what I am getting from this article is that people who allow there child to marry a non-Christian are worse than a murderer, adulterer, and prostitute, and never can be forgiven? Forever outcast from the church and can never partake in communion? I think this evidence of a deeper issue in the heart of the church. Taking the Word of God and changing it to fit what they want it to mean, and using their Christianity to overlord others. Okay, I am done with my rant now. I promise I am not insulting Christianity but only expressing my reactions to what I read.