Black couple banned from getting Married in their church by the congregation??

[tzs]

Never ceases to amaze me how dumb people can be. Apparently, the couple ended up getting married at a church down the street with the same pastor residing over their nuptuals. Also, a small group of protestors in the congregation boycotted outside the church as well, which is LAME!!! What do U think? I am notr religious, but I do recognize ignorance and stupid when I see it!

[inkfection]

i really wish that I had some kind of response to this other than I can't believe that Christians of any denomination would act like this. i'm thoroughly ashamed to have such ppl follow the same faith as me at this point. i hope that said couple still had a beautiful wedding and that none of these idiots ruined it in the least.

[diala84]

This goes to show that humans have a long way to go before we have true equality. It makes me sick to see how humans can treat other humans. We are no better than animals and in some ways maybe even worse because we have more power.

[falcon9]

i really wish that I had some kind of response to this other than I can't believe that Christians of any denomination would act like this. i'm thoroughly ashamed to have such ppl follow the same faith as me at this point. i hope that said couple still had a beautiful wedding and that none of these idiots ruined it in the least.

Different people, applying the same religious belief system in different ways, emphasizes the intolerance of both.

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
-- Steven Weinberg

[dauna]

Honestly--I would have thought we would all be over this by now.  I can remember when interracial marriage was illegal in my state (I'm from and in Tennessee), but that hasn't been in force for a LONG time now.  And really--their own congretation?  Time  for people to get over themselves and stop trying to base spritual precepts upon their own prejudices.

[ccandpam]

I am a Christian and I do not believe that God sees color, after all he created us all. When he was done , he looked and all was good. Who are some to judge what God has created? We are all the same in his eyes.

[falcon9]

I am a Christian and I do not believe that God sees color, after all he created us all. When he was done , he looked and all was good. Who are some to judge what God has created? We are all the same in his eyes.

"You can safely say that you have made g-d in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
-- Reverend Robert Cromey

[jcribb16]

Never ceases to amaze me how dumb people can be. Apparently, the couple ended up getting married at a church down the street with the same pastor residing over their nuptuals. Also, a small group of protestors in the congregation boycotted outside the church as well, which is LAME!!! What do U think? I am notr religious, but I do recognize ignorance and stupid when I see it!

Did they say why the church wanted to ban them?  That just doesn't make sense, does it?  Do you have more information about this?  I agree with you about that being "lame."

[darrell1960]

wow this is unbelievable glad they worked it out

[swkstudent]

This is why I rarely go to church. smh church folks (I know not all but most are ugh)

[walksalone11]

How many of those who disagree with the congregations action would still feel the same if this were a same sex couple?

Same color....why not same sex?

If you say Creator doesn't want two of the same sex married, perhaps one could say Creator doesn't want two of the same color joined, no?

[dreamyxo]

Never ceases to amaze me how dumb people can be. Apparently, the couple ended up getting married at a church down the street with the same pastor residing over their nuptuals. Also, a small group of protestors in the congregation boycotted outside the church as well, which is LAME!!! What do U think? I am notr religious, but I do recognize ignorance and stupid when I see it!

Did they say why the church wanted to ban them?  That just doesn't make sense, does it?  Do you have more information about this?  I agree with you about that being "lame."

http://www.wlbt.com/story/19125864/black-wedding-banned-by-baptist-church

CRYSTAL SPRINGS, MS (WLBT) -

It was to be their big day, but a Jackson couple says the church where they were planning to wed turned them away because of their race.

Now, the couple wants answers, and the church's pastor is questioning the mindset of some of members of his congregation who caused the problem in the first place.

They had set the date and printed and mailed out all the invitations, but the day before wedding bells were to ring for Charles and Te'Andrea Wilson, they say they got some bad news from the pastor.

"The church congregation had decided no black could be married at that church, and that if he went on to marry her, then they would vote him out the church," said Charles Wilson.

The Wilsons were trying to get married at the predominantly white First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs -- a church they attend regularly, but are not members of.

"He had people in the sanctuary that were pitching a fit about us being a black couple," said Te'Andrea Wilson. "I didn't like it at all, because I wasn't brought up to be racist. I was brought up to love and care for everybody."

The church's pastor, Dr. Stan Weatherford, says he was taken by surprise by what he calls a small minority against the black marriage at the church.

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"This had never been done before here, so it was setting a new precedent, and there are those who reacted to that because of that," said Weatherf
Weatherford went on and performed the wedding at a nearby church.

"I didn't want to have a controversy within the church, and I didn't want a controversy to affect the wedding of Charles and Te' Andrea. I wanted to make sure their wedding day was a special day," said Weatherford.

After months of planning, the newlyweds say they had no choice but to go through with the wedding at the new location, but they still can't understand why a church would ban their wedding because of race.

"I blame the First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs, I blame those members who knew and call themselves Christians and didn't stand up," said Charles Wilson.

Church officials say they welcome any race into their congregation. They now plan to hold internal meetings on how to move forward, should this situation occur again.

"I was prepared to go ahead and do the wedding here just like it was planned, and just like we agreed to," said Weatherford. "I was just looking for an opportunity to be able to address a need within our congregation and at the same time minister to them."

[de3ik]

This is disgraceful and these people should be ashamed of themselves. We are all created EQUAL and marriage is what God ordained for men and women. This man's and woman's marriage is no less right in the sight of God because of their race than the congregants. Would they prefer he not marry his fiancee and just live with her to make them happy? It makes you wonder how well they were received by the congregation in the first place, since if they didn't want them to marry in the church based on race, how must they have felt about them as people to begin with.

I am glad the pastor did the right thing and married this couple. God isn't the one behind the hate of this congregation and hopefully they can learn something from their pastor's example.

[visvern]

  how long had this couple belonged to this church? i mean had they not had any racial problems before this. that would seem strange if they had members for a long period of time. are there other black members of this congregation and what was their response to the situation?

[sigmapi1501]

RACISM IN MISSISSIPPI?!!!!! I would have never believed it!