Wedding Banned: Black Couple Told They Can't Wed In Baptist Church Fair or Foul?

by (▪‿▪)DoctorWhoGuru(▪‿▪) Posted 2012/07/28 10:55:06

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Charles and Te'Andrea Wilson were looking forward to saying "I do" in the First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs, Miss. on July 21. But the day before their Big Day, their pastor told them their wedding had been cancelled.

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ProudProgressive 2012/07/28 12:17:28

Foul

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While a church has the right to accept or reject anyone's request to be married in their church, I think it was pretty cheap of them to accept the application, let the couple make their plans and send our invitations only to have the rug pulled out from under them. This sort of ignorant intolerance is unacceptable.
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D.C.Verdone 2012/08/04 08:22:45 (edited)
weirdchickalert 2012/08/01 00:21:07

Foul

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Arent we past civil rights and racism already...PMO >< well then that isnt actually a church because churches are meant to be fair and is a place where everyone is equal in GODS eyes. Better start begging for forgiveness for being a discriminating racist church ><

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Rogue_Loner 2012/07/30 20:39:37
HBO 2012/07/30 11:18:08

Foul

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This just blows my mind ! Is this church stuck in a 1950s time warp or something ? I have a hard time accepting that this could happen in our country in 2012. Did they actually have a "reason" they didn't want them married there, or did they just come right out and decide that being black is enough of a reason ? Since they had already booked the church only to be told later they couldn't use it, then they should sue...at least for the cost of whatever they had to change like the invitations,etc. And for discrimination. I'm just shocked at how an entire congregation agreed upon this. This is ignorance at it's best !

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Aksana 2012/07/30 08:56:56

Foul

+1
unfair

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moonchild 2012/07/29 22:47:44

Foul

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If churches want to right to refuse service to constitutionally protected individuals, they need to give up their tax exempt status. They are NOT a private business.

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Vieuphoria 2012/07/29 19:03:23

Foul

+1
Bastards.

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fudge35 2012/07/29 17:10:41

Foul

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It's very foul, but these bigots have the right to be hateful.

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Swampdog 2012/07/29 13:48:20

Foul

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Of course it's foul, but what's more foul is the way the question is presented. What's the story? A black couple or a church reneging on a deal?

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HBO to Swampdog 2012/07/30 11:19:38

Click the link and read the article...

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Swampdog to HBO 2012/07/30 19:21:59

It's the Huffington Post. Are you serious? I did read the article though. Pretty crappy to accept the couples application then at the last minute slam the door in their face.

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Donald Eric Kesler 2012/07/29 10:01:22

Foul

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Each and every member of that church should hide their faces in shame.

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Lindsey 2012/07/29 05:01:40

Foul

+2
Lol what? Most of the people who attend the baptist churches in my area are black.

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art1ej 2012/07/29 04:13:28

Foul

+2
How is racism fair.....

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Kashee 2012/07/29 03:38:26

Foul

+2
that is wrong

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La 2012/07/29 03:23:54

Foul

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Racism is disgusting. Low of them to wait until the day before the wedding before forcing the people to stop it. "Religious" people like this make me sick. They are bad. people.

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Piperpc 2012/07/29 02:30:34

Foul

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There may be more to this story, but if the pastor agreed to the wedding being held in his church, I believe he should have stood up to that 'minority' of the congregation, and kept his word. If they actually object to a black couple being married in 'their' church, then they are sickening bigots.

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moonchild to Piperpc 2012/07/29 22:54:08

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I believe the pastor is on record saying that he was trying to keep the peace between the members of the church against this couple marrying there and the couple themselves. He felt that they shouldn't be made to feel uncomfortable at their own wedding, so he married them at another church. Anyway you look at it, it's unacceptable. The church is 150 years old, and apparently a black couple hasn't been married there in modern times.

This isn't the 1950s. In the year 2012 a black couple should not be banned from marrying in a so-called Christian church.

The couple had to move their wedding to a predominately black church. Segregation? Apparently still live and well in Mississippi.

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Piperpc to moonchild 2012/07/30 00:23:15

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Yes, I did notice what the pastor said, and that he performed the ceremony in another church. I don't know what to add to my original comment, or yours, unless there is more to 'the story'. Many churches are predominately black or white still, evidently, but if it is because of purposely excluding those with a different skin hue, I sure wouldn't want to go there.

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HBO to moonchild 2012/07/30 11:23:38

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Unless the entire congregation is planning on coming to the wedding, then it's really got nothing to do with them. I don't understand why they would have so much of a problem with this couple marrying in their church,especially if they wouldn't be there !

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Rogue_L... to Piperpc 2012/07/30 20:43:05
Piperpc to Rogue_L... 2012/07/30 21:19:21

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No Beaver, gays are not the only ones persecuted, about anything. In this case though, that is not relevant. The black couple were not prevented from getting married by the law of a state, and were not prevented at all.

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Rogue_L... to Piperpc 2012/07/31 02:00:54
Piperpc to Rogue_L... 2012/07/31 03:22:22

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It isn't relevant to me, because I'm not the one saying, that "I thought only gays were persecuted regarding marriage".

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Rogue_L... to Piperpc 2012/08/01 00:19:14
Piperpc to Rogue_L... 2012/08/01 01:58:41

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I haven't heard "the gays" saying that, and I haven't heard any big noise about being able to marry in any church they choose, either.

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Rogue_L... to Piperpc 2012/08/01 02:02:28
Piperpc to Rogue_L... 2012/08/01 02:44:39

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It is a separate issue anyway, Rogue. I haven't heard "the gays" saying they are the only ones 'persecuted' regarding marriage, and it has nothing to do with being a Liberal.
I've heard gays refer to their battle for societal acceptance, and desire to be legally recognized as married, as a civil rights issue. I have also heard many black folks, and folks with all hues of skin, disagree that it is. Making these kind of generalizations, might best be left to your own SH questions. LOL indeed.......

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Rogue_L... to Piperpc 2012/08/01 03:56:39
Piperpc to Rogue_L... 2012/08/01 15:18:19

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Yes, we are all people, with different hues of skin. It is absurd to pretend like we don't notice that. It how people react to that fact, that is often the problem.......

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Rogue_L... to Piperpc 2012/08/02 00:04:11
Piperpc to Rogue_L... 2012/08/02 01:46:08

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Interesting. One thing is sure; you wouldn't be helpful in locating a missing person, or the perpetrator of a crime.
Tolerance, or being a Liberal, has nothing to do with noticing physical characteristics.

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Rogue_L... to Piperpc 2012/08/02 01:54:47
Piperpc to Rogue_L... 2012/08/02 02:37:34

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That seems rather silly. You didn't "get through to me", at all. I've noticed that 'political correctness' has become idiotic. It isn't just liberals who just use it when it suits them, either.

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Rogue_L... to Piperpc 2012/08/02 03:03:35
Piperpc to Rogue_L... 2012/08/02 03:54:41

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No, it is not silly to label people as human. It is silly to take your anger at "liberals" to the point of NOT making any point at all, and simply being contrary. That is my opinion, not to be confused with a generalization about liberals.

I'm a fan of independent thought, myself. I see absurdities in many stances, and so-called "agendas".

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Ira 2012/07/29 01:25:48

Foul

+5
NOW YOU KNOW WHY the south hates OBAMA. Why the south is mostly conservative.

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Swampdog to Ira 2012/07/29 13:49:12

+1
What's it like to be stupid?

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Ira to Swampdog 2012/07/30 17:37:44

If you had to ask...

Well. I am not brilliant but I know what I see as plain as day. THe south has seemed to have forgotten it lost the Civil War. That what is best for the country and humanity is not what is only designed to please southerners. You guys tout all this conservative crap and the stats on southern states couldn't look worse. It isn't Obama's fault, its the souths antiquated mindset, including clinging to religion, individual rights usurping those of a community and a nation, creating their problems.

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Swampdog to Ira 2012/07/30 19:16:26

You seem to forget that the rights of individuals is what made this country great, not some goofy commune unionist mind set. We were and are a Christian nation regardless of what the Muslime in chief says. Also it was the Republicans who freed the slaves and the Democrats that created the K.K.K. in 1866, also there are more Klansmen in Indiana and Illinois than all of the other states combined. Just because you are willing to give up your individual GOD given liberty for trinkets and pocket change don't think the MEN of this country will be willing to follow along blindly. More Kool aid? I will fight to the death for my freedom! It's unfortunate that you have forgotten what individualism is.

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