Amazing. Hopefully this can be discussed here without the tiresome name calling.
Mississippi Church Refuses to Marry Black Couple
By ALON HARISH | ABC News – 6 hrs ago
They had booked their wedding far in advance. The invitations had been sent, the programs printed. But one day before Charles and Te'Andrea Wilson were to be married at the Mississippi church they frequented, they said a pastor told them they would have to find another venue -- because they were black.
There has never been a black wedding at the First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs, Miss., since its founding in 1883. According to Pastor Stan Weatherford, some church members objected so strongly to breaking that precedent, they threatened to oust him from his pastorship.
Rather than risk his job, Weatherford, who is white, said he decided to marry the pair at a black church down the road.
Wow, that's really disappointing even for the deep south. While I applaud Weatherford for performing the ceromony at an alternate location, I cannot condone his caving in to pressure from the Church and congregation to prevent a black couple being married in their own church, that is truly outrageous!
I could lie and say I go to church on a regular basis, that wouldn't be true. At the same time there are basic principals that apply to Christianity and I would hope anyone who makes being clergy would take that role very seriously. Racial exclusion is not a principal of Christianity and there is no excuse for anyone who says that God favors one race over another.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
