If you read the article, a "small group" came to the pastor and told him that if he went ahead with the service they would get him fired. The wedding would go off as planned but they'd punish him for it.
The pastor, quite properly IMO, did not want to put the couple thru such stress on their day of celebration, so he suggested they move the ceremony.
Probably the best thing to do given the timeline. Had more time been available I think the wise thing to do would have been to force a vote and have these bigots defeated by 3 to 1 or something.
Possibly expel them from the Church. Hehh.
BTW, I used to get into discussions with Freepers who claimed "miscegenation" was against God's will. Something about the races being placed by God on different continents and therefore not supposed to mix. Ignoring that God did not put them where they were, they migrated there from a common source. Truly classic example of illogic. Haven't heard from them in a while.
I read the article, both the posted articled and the “local news” article.
The pastor should have feared [trusted] God more than man and gone on with the ceremony. For some reason he didn’t.
God says in His Word that he made from one (one blood, one man—Adam, the first human being) every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth and determined their appointed times and the boundaries of the habitation, that they should seek God...[Acts 17:24-27]
The verse says that the Sovereign Creator of the universe determines where peoples of nations are to live (regardless of their race or anything else)and when they are to live.